{"id":944,"date":"2023-05-04T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=944"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:17:42","slug":"the-cup-shall-come-south-1923-cup-final-1923-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2023\/05\/04\/the-cup-shall-come-south-1923-cup-final-1923-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cup Shall Come South! (1923) \/ Cup Final 1923 (1923) \/ Getting Ready For Cup Final (1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cup Shall Come South!<\/em> is a short series of portraits of the West Ham team from 1923, shortly before they played that year’s FA Cup Final. <\/p>\n

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The first eleven stand in a line, then look into the camera one by one, some confidently, some nervously. Embarrassment, boredom, maybe even a hint of anger, fury. It’s all there.<\/p>\n

Nowadays the form’s so perfected, every player gurning or fist clenching to the camera in choreographed isolation for the on screen line-up imagery that there’s not a trace of personality anywhere at all, no emotion but pre-packaged passion.<\/p>\n

But here it still feels real, somehow. A glimpse of an illusion of who they really all are.<\/p>\n

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I always find these sort of film portraits really moving, for some reason. I couldn’t tell you why. I recently watched the short docuemntary film Portrait<\/a>, in which a series of Russian farmers stand still and look directly at the camera in a manner similar to this, and thought it was kind of beautiful. And I’ve always really liked Andy Warhol’s screen test<\/a> portraits. <\/p>\n

If I wasn’t such a nervous man I’d ask everyone to let me take a minute long image of them just standing there, looking at the camera, looking right into our eyes, giving us the chance to see right into their souls.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, unfortunately for West Ham the cup did not come south for them at all, and wouldn’t for quite some time again.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I watched these on the BFI Player: The Cup Shall Come South!<\/a>; and Cup Final 1923<\/a>; Getting Ready For Cup Final<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> The 1923 FA Cup final was the first at Wembley, the so-called White Horse Final, where 250,000 people turned up and only that fabled white horse saved the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Although he doesn’t turn up much in the footage presented here.<\/em><\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> You do get a shot of his arse but that’s about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5.<\/strong> The black horses got robbed really.<\/em><\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Especially because the best bit of this footage is when the ref and the West Ham captain are waiting to do the coin toss, and some police come charging past.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7.<\/strong> Which is a genuinely thrilling bit of footage.<\/em><\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> And not done justice by that still at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

9.<\/strong> Also a lot of the footage their makes me a bit queasy<\/em><\/p>\n

10.<\/strong> As wildly overcrowded crowd footage often does.<\/em><\/p>\n

11.<\/strong> I mean just look at it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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12.<\/strong> I’m just glad everyone was okay.<\/em><\/p>\n

13.<\/strong> Also all this footage is even more impressive\/amazing\/terrifying after watching “Getting Ready For Cup Final<\/a>“, and seeing the absolute state of Wembley a few months before, half built, eerily empty.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film Information<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> The Cup Shall Come South!<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1923<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 2 minutes<\/em>
\nWatch:<\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> Cup Final 1923<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1923<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 5 minutes<\/em>
\nWatch:<\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> Getting Ready For Cup Final<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1923<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 1 minute<\/em>
\nWatch:<\/strong> BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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