[Vwoolf] Four short Bloomsbury films!

Catherine Hollis hollisc at berkeley.edu
Wed Jun 25 14:22:55 EDT 2014


What an incredible treat! Thank you for linking to these -- I'm in the
middle of reading Anne Chisholm's biography of Francis Partridge & am
thrilled to see these legendary films. And always curious about tales of
biographical / cultural espionage!

Thanks again,

Catherine

-- 
Catherine W. Hollis, PhD
Instructor, Fall Program for Freshmen
Editorial Associate, The Emma Goldman Papers
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
hollisc at berkeley.edu


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Avery, Todd <Todd_Avery at uml.edu> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I hope you all are well.  List members who have perhaps heard about but
> never seen a series of Bloomsbury Group (specifically, Ham Spray ménage)
> films will be interested to follow this link to YouTube:
>
> http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOOG9PjlJc
>
> In the late 1920s, Carrington, Ralph and Frances Partridge, Saxon
> Sydney-Turner, and others produced four short home-made films---including
> "Dr. Turner's Mental Home," starring Saxon, which was screened at the
> Woolfs' home in London.  Until last year, with the exception of one or two
> public screenings in the 1990s, these films were available for viewing by
> appointment only in the tiny basement viewing room of the British Film
> Institute, in London, and only on VHS.  A BBC presenter seems somehow to
> have procured a copy of the films, and posted them online (I will resist
> regaling you with the tale of cultural espionage by which I may or may not,
> earlier in the year, have tried and failed/succeeded to procure my own
> copy).
>
> Among the highlights: Saxon as a deranged doctor in the first film, and a
> splendid bathtub scene with Rachel MacCarthy; Carrington riding her white
> horse behind Ham Spray---and in slow motion!  James Strachey snarling at
> the camera; Lytton Strachey mugging and laughing from an upstairs window;
> Ralph and Frances and Carrington diving into the pond artistically and then
> struggling to stay afloat upon inflatable swans.  And so much more!
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Todd
>
> Associate Professor of English
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
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