Seven Weeks Of A Summer & Making A Bob Or Two Fairground Documentary Films DVD

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'Seven Weeks Of A Summer Season' (The Story Of Travelling Fairs) A DVD transferred from 16mm black & white film of a long forgotten, and now possibly lost archive, BBC TV documentary on the way of life in the 1960s of the Great British travelling fairground. This interesting film includes rare footage of E. L. Morley's Trabant hauled by the 'T-Pot' Scammell Pioneer, and Silcock's Foden DG hauled Cyclone Twist, amongst the other now vintage fairground transport, seen pulling on to Knutsford Heath for the Royal May Day Fair in 1966.There are fascinating interviews with showmen now no longer with us, and their surviving families, including Michael Collins the lessee of the fair, Walter Scott with the amusement arcade. The 'gafflads' themselves are also interviewed with stories of what it was like to travel with the fair in that now long lost era. Plus gypsy Rosa Lee from Blackpool, the traditional clairvoyant seen demonstrating her prediction talent on the paying public in her caravan, located on the outside of the fairground. Some of the rides captured on film include Robert Green's Caterpillar, John Walter Shaw's Dodgems, Silcock's Cyclone Twist, and many more.This is followed by a visit to Kendall fair in Cumbria the same year for the Whitsun tide fair. Here can be seen John Emmerson's Noahs' Ark complete with organ, Walter Scott' read more

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