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Post by postscript on Jan 25, 2007 15:38:37 GMT
Looks like you're looking up to Big Brother, Belinda, wanting to catch him up and match him!
Peter S.
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Post by postscript on Jan 25, 2007 15:40:06 GMT
Hope he is well, or that it wasn't a 'con job'.
Peter S.
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Post by Mark on Jan 25, 2007 17:29:26 GMT
Hi everyone I thought I would look out a few old photos of when I was small, as this is becoming a really popular thread. This first photo is of me and my baby sister, taken when I was age 5 (1964). I appear to be sitting in a very 1950's style chair and I think my dad had put Brylcream on my hair - who remembers that ?  This next photo, I would be around age 7, with mum and toddler sister.  I am sure that I can find a few more to post at some point, perhaps even in colour !! We did have the odd colour film in the 1960's and 1970's I think i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifMark |
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Post by mariannek on Jan 25, 2007 20:48:46 GMT
Hi Belinda & Mark, What fabulous fotos !! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifThank you so much for sharing them !!!  What amazingly lovely kids we all were, and I believe now some amazing Adults !!!  Love, Marianne  Ps. Where are you Baby Andrew ??  PPs. Thank you Peter ....a truly colourful gentleman !!!  |
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Post by postscript on Jan 26, 2007 9:40:43 GMT
That comment of yours Mark on availability of colour film reminds me of a point I left off when i raised the fact that colour was a novelty in 1943, when I was born and Hollywood produced Gone With the Wind. When they filmed the burning of Atlanta, which scene they shot first, burning down the entire studio area as it was, in order to clear space to build the sets for the rest of the film, Selznick waited until he could obtain every single colour film camera then available. I can't remember if the number was 5 or 7 cameras. That was how rare colour film was.
As an aside. The producers were outraged that he had made no effort to tell the press the great film was under way. They were furious at such a missed publicity option. Selznick assured them that on this occasion, no publicity was the best publicity. Sure enough, the conflagration was so great emergency calls to the fire services were being made twenty miles away and he hit the world's headlines that the film had started as a news entry!
Peter S.
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Post by postscript on Jan 26, 2007 10:01:55 GMT
Thank you Marianne for your colourful tribute. But, can the subtsance behind live up to the image!?  Peter S. |
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Post by Belinda on Jan 26, 2007 10:31:07 GMT
Looks like you're looking up to Big Brother, Belinda, wanting to catch him up and match him! Peter S. Hi Peter are you sure you don't mean Mark and his sister, :2fun: im not even looking at my brother in the pics Hope he is well, or that it wasn't a 'con job'.?? Belinda |
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Post by grant on Jan 26, 2007 14:16:07 GMT
As promised, here is the picture of me "captured in oils"!! Mum painted it in the 1970's from a photograph taken in 1957 which is similar to the black and white photo I posted the other day. Note that Mum straightened my fringe!  Grant |
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Post by graemek on Jan 27, 2007 0:27:08 GMT
Hi Grant, That painting is a true masterpiece!!!! Utterly magnificent.... Struck me dumb !! (audiowise) Graeme  |
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Post by postscript on Jan 27, 2007 9:54:52 GMT
Looks like you're looking up to Big Brother, Belinda, wanting to catch him up and match him! Peter S. Hi Peter are you sure you don't mean Mark and his sister,  im not even looking at my brother in the pics Hope he is well, or that it wasn't a 'con job'.?? Belinda And with Richard accusing me of running my litle tank engine on the main express line getting in everyone's way on the wrong track and probably in the wrong direction too....' Peter S. |
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Post by postscript on Jan 27, 2007 10:06:53 GMT
That is something to be really treasured, Grant and the pun is unintended. I was thrilled when my friend presented his painting of me to me and to have one done by your Mum that really is something. Did she paint any more, if not necessaily of you, just continued painting? Was that a hobby of hers? My friend's mother used to keep a diary, very much on the theme of the published book An Edwardian Lady's Diary with little sketches, sometiems painted in water-colour of scenes she visited and people she met.
Thanks for sharing that, Grant.
Peter S.
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Post by Andrew on Jan 27, 2007 10:55:56 GMT
Hi All, Here are some baby/ childhood pictures from me... This photograph of me was taken in February 1974 when I was 5 months old. Here I am again with sister June (aged 2 years and 8 months) This picture was taken in 1977 when I was 4 years old and sister June was 6 years old. Regards, Andrew |
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Post by Richard on Jan 27, 2007 17:14:38 GMT
And with Richard accusing me of running my little tank engine on the main express line getting in everyone's way on the wrong track and probably in the wrong direction too....' Peter S. Hello Peter!  Don't worry about your little tank engine, but watch out for a tender behind! :rollin Richard  |
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Post by postscript on Jan 27, 2007 17:33:04 GMT
Andrew, that is a superb and lovely range of childhood photographs and excellent quality. Once I've got the tax man and untaxing deadline out of the way I'll try and find time to look through my archived stuff. The trouble is i still have a mountain of paper behind me--despite my belief in electronic working!
Peter S.
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Post by mariannek on Jan 27, 2007 22:47:43 GMT
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