The Questioning City (1963)
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Credits: Narrated - Michael Redgrave, Music - Humphrey Searle. Conducted - Muir Mathieson, Cameraman - Bill Jordan, Editor - Cliff Boote, Written - Stewart Farrar, Producer - Donald Carter, Exec. Prod. - Terry Ashworth, Director - Eric Fullilove.
WS student silhouetted against Kings and Clare. Title BG Roof tops of Cambridge,High St. Trinity Court, River and countryside. LS man fishing, Shepreth Village. Man on horse past Cottage and trees. Horseman passes village church and cottages. Village scenes of cottages, ponds and windmill, and policeman on bike. Sign "Dog and Duck" Inn, Linton. Duck and chicks. Kids fishing in mill pond, Shepreth. Old windmill and Fen's countryside, Wicken.
LS St. Johns and Trinity Bridge. Students in courtyard Emmanuel College. Over shoulder of student with others punting in river below. Students studying on river bank with punting in BG. Student looking at Liquid Air Research experiment in Cavendish Lab. WS Lab with students working. CU writing formula. Scientists working on X-Ray Microscope, CU screen. Two men by row of radar receivers in open field. Man walking on the radio telescope. Researcher and scientist working on electronic equipment. CU TV screen with moving dots. Pan from model of an atom to large Electron Microscope. Scientist looks into microscope, CU of the magnification. Other researchers are working on television equipment. Engineers study plans and hold electronic equipment. WS of electronic lab and CU of the head engineer.
Dean and student walk towards Peterhouse College and through the courtyard. Students on bikes cycle onto the road and through Cambridge streets. Montage of cycling activity with students in gowns. Cyclist arrives at Trinity and runs down the Hall followed by a Porter. Montage of Trinity as the porter walks through the buildings. WS Kings Chapel, Choristers raise their hats as they pass a tutor. As they enter the Chapel pan to carvings above the door. Other shots of the architecture and statues. WS River as students punt past the chapel. Punting towards Clare Bridge. More punting and "poling", passing under the Bridge of Sighs. WS of the bridge and St. Johns. Playing tennis with Colleges in BG. More punting past Magdalene College.
Students play croquet in Magdalene Gardens. LS Peptise Building, Student walking across court drops his books. Actors (students?) rehearse " Much Ado About Nothing" in Cloister Court in front of President's Lodge, CA's actors and director. Queens, First Court, coat of arms, sundial, LS Elizabethan house, Queens bridge, Erasmus staircase with student and tutor talking. Sync scene of students rehearsing, sound cut to students discussing Physics. More studying and punting swans and river. LS kings. Students pass through entrance of Christ College. Street activity, Students and Senate House. Students play cricket in front of the college. Attractive female student leaves through a book in St. Edward's Passage. Two runners jog by the river. Students drinking in the Granta Pub next to the Mill pond, and sitting on wall over the river. Mixed students at sherry party in college grounds.
Punting past Garden House Hotel. Gentile tea drinking with Mummy in the garden. CU cheering and boat race, the "May Races". CU rowing and cheering, WS as boats pass spectators on the river bank. The May Ball at night, with students in tuxedoes dancing to calypso music on the lawns. Romance is in the air. WS as they dance in front of a large open fire. Dawn and punting along the river, students still in their evening attire. Romantic mist on the water shots. Breakfast in The Orchard at Grantchester. Students in evening dress wander past Grantchester Church and through the village. Emmanuel Degree day, and students in robes pass through the college. They pass archways and Christ's courtyard in a long line. The Vice Chancellor mounts the steps of Senate House. In two columns the students of Peterhouse walk through the arches, out the main gate, and down the street. Now four abreast they walk from St. Johns into the entrance of Senate House. Top shot of students in the courtyard. MS and CU shots of the students, their parents and Tutors, in the courtyard.
Repeat of opening shot, silhouette of student in front of Kings and Clare.
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Lovely, serene, civilised England.
All those bright young things are now about 80, if still alive. A sobering thought for one 20 years their junior.
Another world. Sadly lost forever.
What a wonderful time it was
What drastic changes there have been since then Cambridge used to be a quiet backwater of a place but now it is one of the power houses of the UK economy. Sadly along with progress comes a massive increase in population & building, all the fields around Trumpington that I remember as a child have vanished under concrete, the city has lost most of its famous independent shops too.
Yep. Sure miss the Cambridge Music Shop and Brian Jordan's, to name a few....at least you've still got Heffer's, Bould's Coffee and Waller Butchers..
I agree. I was born in Trumpington, opposite Granchester I find it hard to visit now.
Is Fitzbilly's, where you can by Chelsea buns,still there ?
@@simonwinter8839 You can but there are not as good as the originals. Barely get any syrup with them now....almost like a diet version of what they once were.
@@freddiemoses467 Actually I had noticed that myself when I bought some a few years ago.The time they were really good was the 60s .Maybe they seemed bigger then because I was about five !!
I have lived in Cambridge all my life
It’s exactly the same today as you see here!
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I'm afraid you're the only one that thinks so old chap.
Im afraid not..I too have been here all my life..The change is remarkable, and not for the better..
@@beulah3484 Quite so. Perhaps Harry Singh hasn't noticed the change because he hasn't left Cambridge and then returned.
@@simonwinter8839 I have not left and returned either, but i can see the changes..
@@beulah3484 More astute than Harry then!!
Then it seems a place for all ages, with genuine gentility, designed to be quietly elegant. I don't get the same feel now from a load of dressed down people who seem to have sacrificed their personality. I think that the very brightest pupils would have had a much more memorable time there then than now. The students have to be supposedly obsessed with their one subject now. Being an all rounder, actually having a feel for the courtly environment, and having a discernible personality, no longer counts for anything there.
Beautiful please. I am looking out for syd barrett in the background
I'm hoping to see Iain moore
This is, of course, based solely around the universities and the learned. There is and always has
been another side to the City. Town Vs Gown. This is not a criticism, on the contrary, like most
people in the comments section, I mourn the passing of a more genteel time that is being shown
here. It might have something to do with my age.
Absolutely. Born and raised and spent 85% of my life here. Am 43 but have toes in both waters. My Dad, a smart RAF kid to two Londoners, born abroad, went to the university. Mum (raised by her much older sister in Berlin as her parents were.. shall we say.. affected by war and aftermath; my uncle, her husband was a RAF policeman) went as a mature student when we, her kids, were a little older. My sister and I went to the same in hindsight crumbling mod comp, now a trendy academy. My sister went to the dreaming spires and I went to the university of life. Do I wish I had gone? Sometimes. I think I've the brains. But I do feel grounded with the road I've travelled. I'm proud to be part of my family and in this part of the world. We have all done well. But we have seen some big changes in town and like all progress it has taken its casualties. We are all very aware of the town/gown divide.
@@IamRobotMonkey I wasn't very academic at school, so it was the university of life for me too. Whilst things haven't quite turned out for me as I would have liked, I really don't have any complaints and, as I'm in pretty good health, I count my blessings.
But that was a good read, it's nice to hear of people having done well. Good for you and for your family. And thank you for your response.
@teeteringonthebrink.305 I was recently late diagnosed with neurodivergence. I'm simply the among the last of a batch of humans born when this wasn't really picked up on, recognised. Nowadays it's more typical to be non-typical than you'd think. All the very best to you and yours.
@@IamRobotMonkey Thankyou my friend. I must confess I had to look that up to understand the meaning and, of course, I wish you - along with your family - the very best as well. Take care.
2:30 - Time traveler from 2024.
LOL if looks like Mogadishu now
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