“Please to Remember the 5th of November” – But Bridgwater Celebrates is 45 seconds of wonderfully evocative documentary footage from a bonfire night carnival in Bridgwater in Somerset, in 1922.
I’ll never tire of the strange and endless beauty available by just pointing a camera at a fire and filming the smoke and the flames and the flickering light illuminating the surrounding scene. It’s lovely.
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Notes
1. I watched this on the BFI player
2. I was searching for halloween stuff but halloween evidently didn’t exist in Britain until the 1960s
3. At least as far as the BFI player is concerned anyhow.
4. Anyway, this all reminded me of the big huge Bridgwater willow man sculpture that I always see when I drive down to my brother’s in Cornwall.
5. Which in recent years always seems kind of forlorn, all headless and armless and bleakly sad.
6. The poor gigantic thing.
7. (It also reminded me that Bloodborne isn’t so much a fantasy game as straight up historical drama)
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Film Information
Title: “Please to Remember the 5th of November” – But Bridgwater Celebrates
Year: 1922
Duration: 1 minute
Watch: BFI Player