Posted by Roger Wardale on January 25, 2014 at 10:58:43 user RogerW.
I have just come across a DVD of three old 'Saturday morning pictures' films made by The Children's Film Foundation and restored to a good quality.
I particularly liked The Salvage Gang from the 'London Tales' DVD.
Because these were low budget films they were shot largely on location and The Salvage Gang' shows London, still carrying the scars of the blitz in 1958 — fascinating!
I also liked it because there were no villains, just a gang of four kids trying to earn some money to pay for a broken saw. For those interested in the 1963 S&A film, the girl — Amanda Coxell — went on to play Nancy B.
There is another DVD from the same stable that I enjoyed, 'Weird Tales', including the final collaboration from Powell and Pressburger (Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus etc) in a prizewinning fantasy, The Boy who Turned Yellow — again innocent fun, and again shot on location in London.