the children's film foundation

[fogbat]

i guess it doesn't exist anymore. if this is the case, why not? it made some great films. sammy's super t-shirt was my fave.

what was the one with michael elphick in?

The t-shirt with the tiger's head on it, that gave him super powers?

I liked the one where (I think) drug smugglers were confounded in their evil smuggling plans by kids with remote control planes.

 

[spanglechick]

wasn't cheggers in some of these films? as a youngster?

 

[dodgepot]

I liked the one where (I think) drug smugglers were confounded in their evil smuggling plans by kids with remote control planes.

yeah, that was a great one. i may be getting confused but wasn't that the one with michael elphick in (cheers for the ID, belboid)

e2a - no it wasn't

 

[belboid]

wasn't cheggers in some of these films? as a youngster?

yup, as were many other later famous bods - Michael Crawford, David Hemmingway, Dennis Waterman, Susan George, Gary Kemp, Matthew The Wright Stuff Wright.

 

[fogbat]

Brief description of each film on TV Cream

 

[belboid]

Don't remember who started them but I remember Thatcher dropped the funding for them..

I don't think this is quite right.

The CFF was effectively started by the 45 Labour Government, on the recomendation of some bods who thought children's cinema entertainment was lowbrow and american. They needed better. But it wasn't in any way cnsciously leftie - all the kids had to speak in proper RP accents, most of the criminials they fought against were thick working-class types. Not exactly revolutionary stuff.

The Foundation itself was funded through the 'Eady Levy' which took 5% of ticket prices for redistribution to producers to makle more British movies. CFF got a cut of that money (it also went to a whole bunch of great foreign film makers to make stuff here - Truffauts Fahrenheit 451, Polanski's early work, Kubrick, etc etc). Many European countries had similar systems.

Thatchers government decided that the levy wasn't really doing what it was set up for in the early eighties (and - hate to admit it tho I do - they weren't entirely wrong) and abolished it, along with the 25% tax breaks available for film-makers. With the end of the levy, the CFF had no funding, and the fiulms they made weren't good enough to make a profit, not even with all those promo clips on Screen Test.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i guess it doesn't exist anymore. if this is the case, why not? it made some great films. sammy's super t-shirt was my fave.

what was the one with michael elphick in?

Shut up, glitterball was the best!

 

[dodgepot]

Brief description of each film on TV Cream

you sure that's not a shemale porn site?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Shut up, glitterball was the best!

For some reason it's not listed in that imdb list at the top of the thread but it was a CFF film.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It was Michael Rodd. John Craven did 'Newsround' IIRC.

Trivia Fact: Michael Rodd's nephew is the techno-looney artist known as 'Scanner' who makesmusic using people's phone digit dialing tones.

Robin isn't a looney, more of a nerd, and he hasn't actually used a scanner or dial tones in his music for ages!!

 

[fogbat]

you sure that's not a shemale porn site?

Oh shit - wrong link!

Must stop browsing the chicks with dicks in work

 

[ViolentPanda]

Looks of artists have used mobile phone sounds in music.

Scanner did it back when mobiles were the size of a brick and were analogue (i.e. you could listen in on convos with a decent radio frequency scanner).

 

[ViolentPanda]

So Yes then.

No, it lost funding because it didn't make enough profit from overseas sales.

The Children's Film Foundation was run by lefties. What flavour of Leftie?

Twit.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I don't think this is quite right.

The CFF was effectively started by the 45 Labour Government, on the recomendation of some bods who thought children's cinema entertainment was lowbrow and american. They needed better. But it wasn't in any way cnsciously leftie - all the kids had to speak in proper RP accents, most of the criminials they fought against were thick working-class types. Not exactly revolutionary stuff.

The Foundation itself was funded through the 'Eady Levy' which took 5% of ticket prices for redistribution to producers to makle more British movies. CFF got a cut of that money (it also went to a whole bunch of great foreign film makers to make stuff here - Truffauts Fahrenheit 451, Polanski's early work, Kubrick, etc etc). Many European countries had similar systems.

Thatchers government decided that the levy wasn't really doing what it was set up for in the early eighties (and - hate to admit it tho I do - they weren't entirely wrong) and abolished it, along with the 25% tax breaks available for film-makers. With the end of the levy, the CFF had no funding, and the fiulms they made weren't good enough to make a profit, not even with all those promo clips on Screen Test.

CFF relied on sales to our former colonies too, which were going a bit downhill by the 1970s, by which time Canada and Australia had both got their own business concerns to develop such stuff.

 

[belboid]

blimey - it still exists! (in slightly revamped form). And has made good - and popular - programmes

http://www.cftf.org.uk/about.html

 

[rikwakefield]

i guess it doesn't exist anymore. if this is the case, why not? it made some great films. sammy's super t-shirt was my fave.

what was the one with michael elphick in?

That film nearly sent me insane. I used to ask people all the time, when childrens TV came up in conversation, what the name of that film/tv program was where the kid had a t-shirt with a lion on that gave him special powers. Nobody and I mean nobody I know has ever seen it.

Was only a few years ago when I happened upon it somewhere on the net.