Home Town [Nottingham]

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Summary

Studio programme in which Roy Hudd reminisces about the past with a group of elderly people from Nottingham.

Year:

1988

Duration:

0:26:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

1 Inch Type C

Description

Programme is presented by Roy Hudd who chats to a group of Nottingham people. They reminisce about work and leisure in Nottingham. Hudd performs two music hall style songs in the studio accompanied by Don Sherman (piano), Doug Henning (bass) and Will Hill (drums).

Short film clips relating to Nottingham are also shown:

Nottingham city centre (circa 1940s)
A Pathe newsreel about a Robin Hood themed fund raising event (1923)
workers in a lace factory, at the Raleigh cycle factory and at the Players cigarette factory (all short clips)
An advertising film for Persil washing powder (1950s)
A cycle club film (1950s)
Nottingham Goose Fair (1930s?)

There are also several b/w stills of Nottingham and the Goose Fair.


Credits

Home Town with Roy Hudd
Don Sherman at the piano
Doug Henning on bass
Will Hill on drums
Researchers - Di Stubbs, Rakha Singh
Film Researcher - Jon Keeble
Stills Research - Di Smyth
Vision Mixer - Tracy Myers
Video Tape Editor - Nigel Miller
Floor Manager - David MacDonald
Production Secretary - Deborah Kershaw
Production Assistant - Joyce Lewsey
Lighting - John Watt
Designer - Ann Croot-Hawkins
Executive Producer - Tony Wolfe
Producer - Jonathan May
Director - Andy Martin


Notes

Central Television production number 1563/87.