Edmundo Ros RIP & Elan film of Motor Show 49 yrs ago today.

Post by: **ardee_selby** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:49 pm

RIP Edmundo...

What's the connection? Tenuous...but he WAS there in '62, and I noticed the issue date of the film: 49 years ago today!!

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=42648

Cheers - Richard

Post by: **nebogipfel** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:35 pm

Slightly embarassed to say I'm not familiar with Ros and his works :oops:

But what a briliant old clip of film, fantastic cars one and all ......soon after that time it all started to go wrong.

Commom Market my **** :evil:

Love the voice over, love the nostalgia, love the sexism makes me so proud to have lived through a time when we could call ourselves English (assuming you are of course

)

I do wish these films were in the public domain after all these years and to be honest I wonder why they aren't?

Post by: **reb53** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:33 am

Amazing ! ( like being 10 years old again ).

Seeing the 3 litre Rover I now know where the Sprint colour scheme came from....

Ralph.

Post by: **bcmc33** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:35 pm

ardee_selby wrote:RIP Edmundo...

Richard,

Jumped the gun a little, I think. Edmundo died yesterday (21st Oct) at the age of 100.

So its definately RIP Edmundo today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15414606

Post by: **UAB807F** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:07 pm

nebogipfel wrote:Love the voice over, love the nostalgia, love the sexism makes me so proud to have lived through a time when we could call ourselves English (assuming you are of course )

I do wish these films were in the public domain after all these years and to be honest I wonder why they aren't?

I'm the same, I've looked at quite a few of the 60s/70s clips on the Pathe site.

I was even prepared to shell out cash to be able to compile a few clips onto a DVD for our telly, but the prices they ask are out of all proportion for what's after all just a hobby. That clip for instance was up at ?50, ?50 for a 6 minute clip ? All I can say is I'm glad Harry Potter dvds aren't on the same ?/minute scale !

Brian

Post by: **Robbie693** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:12 pm

Looks like a piece of copper pipe for the fuel hose on those Webbers (about 5:20 in )...

Not sure I'd appreciate those 'Lovelies' sitting on my bodywork!

Robbie

Post by: **bcmc33** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:46 pm

UAB807F wrote:
nebogipfel wrote:Love the voice over, love the nostalgia, love the sexism makes me so proud to have lived through a time when we could call ourselves English (assuming you are of course )

I do wish these films were in the public domain after all these years and to be honest I wonder why they aren't?

I'm the same, I've looked at quite a few of the 60s/70s clips on the Pathe site.

I was even prepared to shell out cash to be able to compile a few clips onto a DVD for our telly, but the prices they ask are out of all proportion for what's after all just a hobby. That clip for instance was up at ?50, ?50 for a 6 minute clip ? All I can say is I'm glad Harry Potter dvds aren't on the same ?/minute scale !

Brian

Brian,

I pulled the same clip in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-81fPR ... 6087A25DD7

You can copy it from there.

Post by: **nebogipfel** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:37 pm

Robbie693 wrote:Not sure I'd appreciate those 'Lovelies' sitting on my bodywork!

Robbie

Oh I don't know .....just so long as they didn't sit on my Lotus :twisted:

bcmc33 wrote:
I pulled the same clip in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-81fPR ... 6087A25DD7

You can copy it from there.

Thanks for the link Brian but that's such a low res'/low bitrate clip it's fairly unpleasant to watch

Post by: **alexblack13** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:58 pm

Reminded me of sitting in the back of the Regal Cinema quite a few (don't you just love diplomacy!) years ago... Very distinctive voice overs..

Great bit of film. Thanks for the link.

Alex.

Post by: **ardee_selby** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:12 pm

bcmc33 wrote:
ardee_selby wrote:RIP Edmundo...

Richard,

Jumped the gun a little, I think. Edmundo died yesterday (21st Oct) at the age of 100.

So its definately RIP Edmundo today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15414606

I usually go off half-cocked :wink:

But, point of order...I didn't know when, exactly, the late great Edmundo had passed. I happened to see the coincidence of yesterday (22nd) being the 49th "anniversary" of the film being issued...and that Mr.Ros had featured in it.

Issue Date: 22/10/1962 Sound: Yes
Time in: 01:13:53:00 Time out: 01:20:14:00
Canister: 62/85 Film ID: 1735.02
Sort number: 62/085 Tape: *PM1735

So, something less than a year to go for the Elans 50th...

Cheers - Richard

Post by: **Robbie693** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:04 am

nebogipfel wrote:
Robbie693 wrote:Not sure I'd appreciate those 'Lovelies' sitting on my bodywork!

Robbie

Oh I don't know .....just so long as they didn't sit on my Lotus

Ah ha! Well I guess it had to be said

Robbie

Post by: **nebogipfel** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:20 am

Robbie693 wrote:
nebogipfel wrote:
Robbie693 wrote:Not sure I'd appreciate those 'Lovelies' sitting on my bodywork!

Robbie

Oh I don't know .....just so long as they didn't sit on my Lotus

Ah ha! Well I guess it had to be said

Robbie

Predictable (among other things :shock:

) is my middle name

Post by: **elansprint71** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:16 pm

Daylight come and me wanna go home.

Post by: **nebogipfel** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:05 pm

Day, me say day, me say day, me say day....ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home :?:

Post by: **ardee_selby** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:34 pm

elansprint71 wrote:Daylight come and me wanna go home.

nebogipfel wrote:Day, me say day, me say day, me say day....ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

What are you two on? Bananas?

What's the connection here? :evil:

AFAIK Harry Belafonte was NOT at the '62 Motor Show, or any other come to that!

...or was I asleep when he was featured in the film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn8BuSRq ... re=related

Cheers - Richard

Edmundo Ros RIP & Elan film of Motor Show 49 yrs ago today.

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