The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) - extract
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2013
- An extract from the splendidly eccentric final collaboration of eminent filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. One of three family films featured on the forthcoming DVD, 'The Children's Film Foundation Collection: Weird Adventures', released by the BFI on 17 June 2013 - bit.ly/16lDeHV.
London schoolboy John Saunders turns bright yellow after losing his pet mouse on a school trip. Is the mysterious colour change the result of an alien invasion or does the answer lie closer to home?
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I ran this film for the children's Saturday matinee at the cinema where I was a projectionist on July 28th, 1973, on the same day that Darren Burn was making his first personal appearance live on stage at the Sundown, Edmonton, north London (formerly the 3,000 seater Regal cinema, which, like Darren, is now long gone, but equally not forgotten).
I loved this movie as a kid, I found it for sale on VHS at a boot fair and couldn't stop watching it
Remember watching this on our black and white telly
🤣 the boy who stayed the same..
I really enjoyed watching these stories. They were so different. Not the same storyline cranked out over and over again. I thought it was a fun watch.
First time hearing of this film in my life. As a big fan of "The Red Shoes" this looks like a film to see!
Here it is a lis of the filmography of Powell & Pressburger:
ruclips.net/p/PL3bN3qL-ZFiE8PsJss-d-9MCFjQWOnZce
I can remember watching this film in the mid 80s when it was shown on BBC1 as part of The Friday Film Special series. Another film that sticks in my mind from that series was a film about some kids who get stranded, when their town was evacuated, due to an explosion at a nuclear power station....
One Hour to Zero. Dudley Sutton plays a crook in it.
@@twittykins I remember watching that as a child and finding it somewhat entertaining. My dad, who worked as a research engineer for the UK nuclear industry, was less impressed.
I remember seeing this on TV sometime in the 70s. He eventually met some person/thing that can travel as electricity to different places. And at the end he returned to his normal self. It was fun to watch as a kid and this is all I can remember.
Beautifully restored clip - looks very inventive
I wished the BFI would release these on Blu-ray instead of just DVD. The 1080p looks amazing.
1938 stock I remember them with great affection.
I got this out the video shop when I was a boy in the 80s. Very weird little film but the name always stayed with me.
The driver of the 1938 stock was Fred riddout
Beautiful.
By the way, I am not Helen Izod. I am her husband, who is a lot older!
I started laughing frenetically when I saw the train.
NOT ONE WORD, NOT ONE!
thanks.
this was one of the top titles in the video shop when videos first came out might of even been in the betamax section lol
It was, becasue I rented it on Betamax.
And leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy.
Robert Burns, to a mouse. Anglicised.
Early shot of him talking to the driver, you can see the yellow paint on the outside.
yeah duh
Btw I didn’t notice that so, good eye for you
@darrenburnfan: which cinema? I came looking for this as I remember seeing it one Saturday morning as part of the ABC Minors (5p to get in, a cartoon, a serial and a feature), in Enfield around about that date. It would be too spooky if you were the projectionist.
I thought this film might have something to do with Jaundice but....nope
if anyone has an old tape version of it from the 80s maybe they can transfer it to DVD
You could live on a weekly wage of £27 in 1972, but definitely not these days!
That's roughly the same amount that YTS trainees got in around 1979 / 1980.
Allowing for inflation that would be around £349 now, I certainly could live on that and in fact do! I wonder what the wage for the same job is now, it would be interesting to see if it’s gone up over what it would have been then allowing for inflation, my mum was a matron in a hospital in Devon back then, her wage was £30 a week, not a lot more really but she had much more responsibility. When I got my first job in a kitchen in 1982 it was £37 a week but that was plenty as £349 would be and in fact is now as that’s roughly what I earn and it pays all my bills and leaves some for saving. Of course, I have no debt, no car and I don’t go to the pub every day!
Actually, the drivers wage has more than doubled over those wages. It’s just over £1000 per week now so they are much better off now and yes, I’ve allowed for rent prices which have not gone up as much as we are told according to what I have seen you can still rent a one bedroom flat in London for about the same price as it would have been in 1972. Now, I’m not talking luxury but back then the working class did not live in luxury, we rented our TV set, on the whole did not own a car, certainly not a phone! And all the usual costs work out about the same or actually, in some cases less, especially food! But I’m talking bare minimums. A working class person back then would never have shopped at somewhere like Tesco or Sainsburys as it was far too posh!
Anyone any idea who the beauty in the train is?.
It doesn't list her as an actress or her character on IMDb so it's a bit of a mystery.
Just seen he clip and that was the first question which entered my mind. Did you ever find out?
@@oldwaltonian2476 no lol
@@ayrshireman1314 A pity...seems her anonymity was intentional. Thanks for the update all the same.
No idea. But married in 1972
It’s only 55 mins running time. It’s a movie?
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so.... dee dah dah dit dat dot ding.
much prefer the girl who turned tricks