Growing up in the 50's and 60's Without much Television, the Cinema ('Flicks') and reading books was popular |
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1950's - Books and the CinemaA short insight to what we did back in the 1950'sBOOKSThe early years of the 50's comprised of two main books, the Rupert's and the Noddy's!My first Rupert Annual was a Christmas present in 1952 and this became a regular present for quite some time. The nice thing about Rupert Books was that there were so many illustrations so well painted, that you didn't have to read to follow the story! I used to spot Rupert type houses from my walks down the lane and out the window of the bus on the way to town. At the age of about 6 contracted Pnuemonia and was bed ridden for quite a few weeks. Every day the Nurse would come round and give me a jab of something and afterwards I'd down a glass of Lucozade which was lovely! Both these books were very colourful and symetrical and I can often see hints of this 'flavour' in some of the website pages! Later on I got the Enid Blyton spell and would read about the 'Famous Five' where no holiday would be without some mysterious adventure and strange going's on in the Cliff's. Besides those I would often spend time looking through some of the grown up books, especially the one's of Pictorial history. Other widely read boy's books were Treasure Island, Davy Crockett, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows, Biggle's, Jenning's, Mallory Towers and the Annuals and Comics of 'The Eagle', any Cowboy story's of Roy Rogers, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson and The Lone Ranger. THE CINEMAThe physical aspect of the 50's didn't change much during the 50's. It was a special treat, an event to go and watch a famous movie star or the famous story you'd be familiar with from books and so on. You entered the Foyer, heavily patterned Axminster Carpet immaculately clean and still smelling of Carpet. My first trip to the Cinema frightened me! My parents left Julia and myself at the Granada Sevenoaks to watch 'The Wizard of Oz'. I think I was about 6.
During the mid-late 50's my Father would take me occasionally to watch war film's such as 'Sea of Sand' (the Desert) and 'Titanic (one week before a Ferry trip to The Isle of Wight!!) and my Aunt would always go to watch the Newsreels in Oxford Street on a treat to London. My favourite film's of the 50's, were 'War of the World's' and 'The Wooden Horse'. Although filmed in 1946 (I was born in the 40's!), my absolute top of the pops is 'A Matter of Life and Death' by the supremely masterful Powell and Pressinger Directors.
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