Even super-heroes sometimes need a little break ... This week we are reposting our discussion from about a year ago of John Lewis Curthoys' 1941 film ‘Border Weave’, produced by the British Council about the production of woollen textiles in the Scottish Borders, but also about empire, national identity and tradition versus modernity. See links below.
Merel on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/mereltreasures
MoMu Antwerp: https://www.momu.be/en/
British Council Film Archive: https://film.britishcouncil.org/resources/film-archive
John Lewis Curthoys (director), Border Weave (1941): https://film.britishcouncil.org/resources/film-archive/border-weave
John Lewis Curthoys and George Wynn (directors), Their Great Adventure (1948): http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150057853
George Wynn: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943964/
Jack Cardiff: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002153/bio
Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joseph-gordon-macleod
London Cloth Company: http://www.londoncloth.com/
David Parkinson, ‘Where to begin with Humphrey Jennings’, BFI (19 August 2019): https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-humphrey-jennings