Sounds like you at least got some entertaining movies Tatt. We were always up for a movie too, but they were really boring ones about assembly lines, how Congress works or how to safely cross the street.
Occasionally we would have a more festive event, with popcorn in the main Assembly room with all the other grades. Those would be full length films like the Fall of the House of Usher or a Musical.
Rumertron wrote:Tat - this must be the origin of your fascination with all things British! I have often wondered!
He was raised on Kidney Pie?
tattuchu wrote:You may be right. In fact I was wondering about that very thing, and these film shorts were my earliest glimpse of British life.
I followed your link though and I don't think that's it, but it's hard to be sure. These shorts that remember featured regular kids getting into adventures around town. And "adventures" may be too strong a word. One episode came to me today, assuming I'm not confusing it with something else, which could easily be the case. In it, one of the kids invents his own toothpaste and goes door to door selling it with limited success. This seemed very odd to me, since you can't just put whatever the hell you want in toothpaste. It has to have certain ingredients in it in order to be effective, but the movie didn't give you any sort of message like that.
Like I said, I could be confusing the toothpaste thing with something else. But still, the English show that I remember wasn't exactly educational or anything. Like, the whole bit about the toothpaste didn't seem to be instructional in any way, no lessons learned from it. It was just a show about kids getting into mischief, or fucking around, or maybe solving some minor mysteries (though memory is very hazy). That's why it confused me as to why it was being shown to us. It was interesting, but I didn't see the point in it. And of course my teacher, like most adults, never bothered to explain anything to us. It was just, "We're going to watch a movie today," and that was it.
I wonder if it was meant to introduce us to another culture. No clue. But in my case, I do think it may have been the origin of my interest and fondness for everything British.
I think you need to travel to the UK. No offense, the UK is one of the coolest places on the planet but there is such a thing as over-romanticizing.
That's not to say that I don't adore it in Europe. In fact, a year after traveling there I miss it already and want to revisit. But, I could never live there.
.But it's true Tat there is not much to be enamored of in the UK .
