Old movies

[porkypie]

I like watching an old movie that I enjoyed when it first came out even the ones in B&W. Yes, I thought I would enjoy seeing Mary Poppins again so i recorded it. But Dick van Dykes appalling cockney accent annoyed me so much i switched it off.
Maybe it is not the same the next time round.
Btw I read books too that I enjoyed years ago.

gus

[Pink Betty]

i watched Mary Poppins too - it came out when i was very small (4) and i saw it five times that year . Leicester Square Odeon - a huge treat in those days.

i think the lady feeding the birds is based on the old lady who lived in the flat downstairs from us. she was well known for feeing the pigeons in Sloane Square. her name was Annie Derry -we used to go and visit her every Christmas morning and she'd give us children a present. i came across some photos of her in one of my father's albums the other day.....she might be surprised to know that my brothers and i still remember her every christmas morning.

[nickcosmosonde]

I too saw it when it first came out, and just like Bets I was four too. Which is surprising, because I'm many many years younger than Bets, of course. Even then I thought it was sentimental drivel of the worst possible order, with some of the most superbollifurtrocious songs ever to blight my dimly awake consciousness. The best thing about that experience was when we came out of the cinema - in Bedford, I think - I witnessed a double-decker bus try to drive under a low-height bridge it shouldn't have and rip its entire roof off. The passengers didn't look too bothered - they were still used to rationing, and it was Bedford, and they may have just endured Mary Poppins, after which losing your head may have been a welcome relief.

[Pink Betty]

chitty chitty bang bang was far worse imho.

[nickcosmosonde]

That depends on who you did it with. Mine was with a young lady named Higginbottom, which a lesser man might have taken as a warning, and they'd have been wrong.