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Title: Date and name the film.
Post by: duckboy on Monday 31 January 11 20:29 GMT (UK)

This photo shows my partners great grandfather ( on horse ) on a film shoot. Can some one please date this for us. This was taken at cerne abbas in Dorset. The clapper board says Black---- can anyone name this film or the actors.
Thanks Chriss.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: oldtimer on Monday 31 January 11 20:36 GMT (UK)

Hi Chriss

you forgot to attach the photo.

Judy  ;)

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: duckboy on Monday 31 January 11 21:24 GMT (UK)

Sorry I am new to this. hopefully the photo has attached this time. Chriss

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: duckboy on Monday 31 January 11 21:29 GMT (UK)

This is my 3rd try at posting the photo.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: HeatherLynne on Monday 31 January 11 21:38 GMT (UK)

Well done on posting the photo - I find it quite difficult!  While you were posting I did some Googling and found this:

" Albert Finney not only starred in the 1963 Oscar-winning Tom Jones, which had a stag hunt scene filmed at Cerne Abbas and Cranborne House as Tom's stately pile, but returned more than 20 years later to Milton Abbas and Sherborne schools to star as a weary schoolmaster in The Browning Version"

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/1466130.Location__location__location_/

tho now I've seen the photo I don't think it's much use!

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: duckboy on Monday 31 January 11 21:58 GMT (UK)

Thanks Heatherlynne for the infomation.

The gentleman on the horse is Aubrey Read born in 1884 and died 1n 1973, who was a groom who I presume was use to look after the horses. Chriss.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: old rowley on Monday 31 January 11 22:19 GMT (UK)

Not too sure but the film may well be "A Gipsy Cavalier" which was directed by J. Stuart Blackton in 1922 staring Georges Carpentier and Flora La Breton. There is a scene in the film whereby a post-chaise is trapped in a flooded area. A post-chaise would be used in the same manner as is shown in this image with the coachman riding the lead horse.

OR.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: chinakay on Monday 31 January 11 22:25 GMT (UK)

Sure looks like Flora La Breton! Good catch OR :)

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: PrueM on Monday 31 January 11 22:26 GMT (UK)

Nice one OR.  ;)
I was going to say that the makeup on the characters looks like that  used in 1920s films.
Cheers
Prue

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: old rowley on Monday 31 January 11 22:40 GMT (UK)

Thanks China and Prue I was working on the assumption that the word on the clapper board was more likely to be the director rather than the film name.

I have found an image with Georges Carpentier in it but can not post it up as it is copyright to the Getty collection in which Georges is involved in a fight scene. What it does show however is that the figure by the post-chaise is that of Georges who was, at the time of the film being produced, the world light heavyweight boxing champion (1920-1922). The date of the image that I have found puts the film as being made in the January of 1922.

Also have you noticed that there is writing just in front of the clapper boy and it is being masked by the mud?

OR.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: chinakay on Monday 31 January 11 22:47 GMT (UK)

Oooh, another good one OR :)

Wakefield something Harwell??

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: Greensleeves on Monday 31 January 11 22:54 GMT (UK)

Looks to me like
Wakefield
Broadway
Hanwell

I have checked google maps and there is a Broadway in the village of Hanwell...

GS

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: duckboy on Monday 31 January 11 23:07 GMT (UK)

Many thanks to everyone for there interest and information. I presumed that the black on the clapperboard referred to the film not the director that is why I could not find any information on it.

This is a postcard, the writing on the front says Wakefields broadway Hanwell. On the rear of the card it says, photo by Wakefields the broadway Hanwell w7 ( opposite the grand theatre ).

Thanks Chriss.

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: millymcb on Monday 31 January 11 23:07 GMT (UK)

Ooh good detective work!

There is a picture of Flora  at Getty from the film and she does look very like the girl in the carriage
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3422758/Hulton-Archive

 
Milly

UPDATE - Sorry should have said these are photos from the film Gipsy Cavalier

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: millymcb on Monday 31 January 11 23:10 GMT (UK)

And another of Mary Clare ...the other woman in the carriage
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3422757/Hulton-Archive

Milly ;D

UPDATE - Sorry should have said these are photos from the film Gipsy Cavalier

Title: Re: Date and name the film.
Post by: Seoras on Tuesday 01 February 11 00:52 GMT (UK)

Mary Clare starred with Ronald Colman in the 1920 British silent film,The Black Spider.Seems to have been shot mainly in Monte Carlo however.It has got black in the title though ;D