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This Happy Breed - History. This Happy Breed has been going since about 1990 or so, with one change in the line-up. That change, I think everyone will agree, was for the better. But then I would say that as that was when I joined the band! W e are a four piece band - Ashley on drums, Paul on lead guitar, Andy on vocals and rhythm guitar and me ...
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with the average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of World War II.
This Happy Breed (1944) The story opens in 1919, the end of the First World War, with a shot of the London rooftops. In a closer shot, the camera moves in through the top window of one of these houses just as the Gibbons family is moving in. Frank Gibbons has just returned after four years of service.
On 22 July 1943 the Kineamatograph Weekly noted that ‘Shooting of exteriors on the Technicolor production of “This Happy Breed,” the Noel Coward-Two Cities film, has already begun, but David Lean’s efforts have been complicated by the vagaries of the weather.’ The reporter continued that ‘In the eminently respectable Clapham street chosen by David Lean I spent some time on Monday ...
Jun 6, 2012 · This Happy Breed (1944) was one of two films Lean filmed on three-strip Technicolor (followed by Blithe Spirit in 1945) and the restoration, combining digital and photochemical techniques, was carried out at the BFI National Archive's Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted and at Cineric in New York. Cineric is a post-production facility which combines optical printing and photochemical ...
Ethel Gibbons (Celia Johnson) leads Queenie Gibbons (Kay Walsh) and her husband from the house. The house still stands on Alderbrook Road. Taken by John H. (SJ) Joining the younger children Vi (Eileen Erskine) and Reg (John Blythe), the family set off to visit the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley.
