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T.9106 (6 reel 9.5mm sound release by Pathéscope March 1941) 
"IT'S A GRAND OLD WORLD"          GB Jan1937     Dir: Herbert Smith
-----------------------           A British Lion Presentation
71mins B/W Cert "U"               Produced by: Tom Arnold Productions
(Approx 48mins on 9.5mm)          Released by: British Lion Film Corporation Ltd
Produced at Beaconsfield Studios, UK
Story by: Tom Arnold & Sandy Powell
Screenplay: Ingram D'Abbes, Fenn Shene
Camera Operator: Harry Rose
Cinematography: George Stretton
Art Dir: Norman G. Arnold    
Musical Dir:  John Borelli 
Songs by: Michael Carr & Jimmy Kennedy
Film Editing: Brereton Porter
Sound: Harold V. King 
Songs: (songs included in the Pathescope 9.5mm optical sound print)
 "It's A Grand Old World" sung by Sandy Powell motoring down a long lane 
 Tap dance routine - performed on the theatre stage by Cyril Richard & Gina Malo
 "It's A Grand Old World" - sung by Sandy Powell & Gina Malo
 "Poet and Peasant Overture" - played by a Brass Band with Sandy Powell on bass drum
 "Annie Laurie" - played with hand bells in a radio studio


9.5mm sound film title frames


 

Unemployed Sandy takes a job at the theatre, falls in love with the
leading lady, wins the pools, sorts out a dishonest gambling den,
buys her family estate back for her and even finds time for a song!
Cast:   Sandy ........................ Sandy Powell
        Joan ......................... Gina Malo
        Brian ........................ Cyril Richard
        Stage Manager ................ Gary Marsh
        Bull ......................... Frank Pettingell
        Auctioneer ................... John Turnbull
        Father ....................... Fewlass Llewellyn
        Banks ........................ Ralph Truman
        Jeff ......................... Hal Walters
        Actor ........................ Ernest Sefton
        Girl In the Car(unbilled) .... Iris Charles
        (unbilled) ................... John Clements
               
 
Gina Malo, Sandy Powell and director Herbert Smith
relaxing on the set of "It's A Grand Old World"

 Watch 16 mins of my 9.5mm sound film print on You Tube: https://youtu.be/pOpfIWnFunc  29Sept2016

 


 
  
Part of the front and inside page of Pathescope's first leaflet since 1940.
I believe they had arranged with UK Kodak to provide some print stock - 
but there was a World War on at the time!

Notes:
        1. Re-issued in the UK by Renown in 1947, so maybe not all prints are lost,
           unlike many of the pre-war British Lion film productions.
        2. D.R. James screened this film on 9.5mm sound to Sandy Powell. During 
           the show, Sandy identified one of the extras as John Clements.

       3. When Sandy Powell appeared on "This Is Your Life", the producers could
          not locate prints of any of his films on any gauge. At another time Dave
          Wyatt provided BBC-TV with a 9.5mm sound print of this picture for a
          programme on Sandy.

       4. A 9.5mm sound excerpt was projected on the big screen at the National Film
          Theatre when Grahame Newnham and Dave Wyatt gave a show/talk called "They 
          Survive On Nine-Five" in February 1999. Using a converted Elf RT2 projector,
          a twenty foot picture was obtained (f1.2 lens and slightly overvolted lamp!
          - plus quite decent sound hooked into the cinema system).

       5. A clip from the 9.5mm print of this film was used in "Cinema In Miniature"
          a one reel production about home movies made by Lee Mannering and
          commercially released on 8mm.
       6. Released by Pathéscope on 9.5mm sound in March 1941, "It's A Grand Old
          World" had disappeared from the Pathéscope Film Catalogue by 1953.
       7. A 9.5mm sound transfer is available on DVD at £5.95 plus 90p UK postage
          from myself - see the sales lists on this web-site.
                    
(Extra info. gratefully sourced from Maurice Trace & Denis Gifford) ZT-9106/gln/27.09.2016

  

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