{"id":1195,"date":"2024-11-05T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2024-11-05T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:24:53","slug":"please-to-remember-the-5th-of-november-but-bridgwater-celebrates-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2024\/11\/05\/please-to-remember-the-5th-of-november-but-bridgwater-celebrates-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"“Please to Remember the 5th of November” – But Bridgwater Celebrates (1922)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Please to Remember the 5th of November” – But Bridgwater Celebrates<\/em> is 45 seconds of wonderfully evocative documentary footage from a bonfire night carnival in Bridgwater in Somerset, in 1922.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I watched this on the BFI player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> I was searching for halloween stuff but halloween evidently didn’t exist in Britain until the 1960s <\/em><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> At least as far as the BFI player is concerned anyhow.<\/em><\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> Anyway, this all reminded me of the big huge Bridgwater willow man<\/a> sculpture that I always see when I drive down to my brother’s in Cornwall.<\/em><\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> Which in recent years always seems kind of forlorn, all headless and armless and bleakly sad<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> The poor gigantic thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> (It also reminded me that Bloodborne isn’t so much a fantasy game as straight up historical drama)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film Information<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> “Please to Remember the 5th of November” – But Bridgwater Celebrates <\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1922<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 1 minute<\/em>
\nWatch:<\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[350,533,529,528,532,531,530,188,534],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-350","tag-bloodborne","tag-bonfire-night","tag-bridgwater","tag-carnivals","tag-festivals","tag-november-5th","tag-somerset","tag-willow-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}