A quirky Shelagh Delaney/Lindsey Anderson project from 1967. Patricia Healey hails a mysterious bus and gets caught up in an urban expedition led by full-regalia-wearing "Lord Mayor" Arthur Lowe. A very weird and beautiful film full of visual non sequiturs. Also a cool if somewhat understated score by Misha Donat. Buried in the mix there's a rhythmic musique concrete refrain where Donat (who also scored the "Crown of Glass" colour trade test film) appears to have borrowed Delia Derbyshire's green lampshade. Here's the creepy folksy lullaby that plays when Healey boards the bus.
That looks *fantastic*! A must see - but not on DVD, if Amazon is anything to go by :(
ReplyDeleteHi! If you do a bit of googling you can find some links for an AVI download...
ReplyDelete.....can you PM me with a little more info!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben, probably one of the best films I've seen recently, fully deserves a DVD release!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletereally great! I would loooove to hear some more music for this film. Also Crown of Glass! was this music ever released? I would love to get the crown of glass music on a record.
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