Old British children's films

I remember watching the Childrens Film Foundation films at primary school in the late 70's/early 80's & clearly remember the shot of the pigeons/Trafalgar square at the start of the films..

We used to have a 'Film Show' in the school hall, think it was normally once a term & had to pay 10p to watch the film...it always seemed to be a CFF & was screened via a procjector... I remember that the teacher had to switch reels of film during the interval/playtime.

To be honest, I hated watching the films - they bored me to death & it was torture watching the CFF films whilst squeezed into a hall with a couple of hundred other kiRAB (the whole school watched the film)...my backside used to be numb by the end of the film, as we had to sit on the floor during the whole film
 
On Bluray too .



That series is due out on dvd later this year.
The Saturday Morning Pictures dvd's contain another film series called The Magnificent 6 1/2 and these feature some cast members of the Double Deckers which they made shortly afterwarRAB.



The 1970's Famous Five series produced for Southern tv is either out or very close to coming out on Bluray and dvd in Germany with an English track .
No news on a UK release yet although they did come out on tape
 
I thought the magnificent 6 1/2 came first.....

but even though I watched The Double Deckers religiously, and several times, I still wanted to beat them all to death with a cricket bat. Nowadays they'd be reducing Amanda Holden to tears singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow.......

and I didn't fancy the girl either - she looked just like my cousin, and that was too pervy, even at my tender age
 
Yes remember this one wish they would bring out a dvd compilation for these films as there is definently a market for them , remember Michael Elphick and his baddie buddy trying to grow potatoes or something or finding them and going nuts brilliant crap mun.

4D Special Agents, Terry On the Fence and Sky Pirates spring to my mind also the Electric Eskimo.

Try the official site for loaRAB of info and film lists -

http://www.cftf.org.uk/
 
i know that The Amazing Mr Blunden isn't an CFF movie. In the OP it said "old British children's films that used to be shown in the 80's. They were in colour & from the 70's & 80's timeframe. "

Until afterwarRAB CFF wasn't mentiioned by someone. So I included Blunden as it was a British film made in the 70's for children as was the Water babies, but I've never seen that so couldn't really comment on it.
 
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