A
World Away
The Thirties in
ColourEpisode 1 of 4
Four-part series
using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to
give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which
erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of
age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and
Kodachrome - were patented and brought to the market.
This opening part
looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker, Rosie Newman,
who used her high society contacts to secure extraordinary access to
the social elite. Between 1928 and her retirement in the 1960s,
Newman criss-crossed the globe and shot some of the most important
colour documentary footage of the period.
Some of her colour
films have been seen before, but this programme features some of
Newman's work that has never been broadcast and has not been seen
publicly for over 70 years.
Unseen footage of the Queen as a young girl in new BBC documentary
Previously unseen
footage of the Queen has been discovered showing her as a young girl
playing with her sister.
By Nicole Martin,
Digital and Media Correspondent 2:20AM BST 17 Jul 2008
The film was taken
in the summer of 1936 and shows a young Princess Elizabeth with
Princess Margaret in their parents' garden at 145 Piccadilly, London,
near Hyde Park.
It was shot by Rosie
Newman, a socialite and amateur film-maker, whose family lived next
door to then Duke and Duchess of York.
That year, following
the surprise abdication of King Edward VIII, they became King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth, known later as the Queen Mother.
The footage was part
of The Thirties In Colour, a BBC4 documentary about a decade when
colour film came of age, screened on Wednesday.
The opening episode
of the four-part series examined the work of Miss Newman, the
daughter of a wealth banker, who used her wealthy contacts to travel
the world and document key moments of the period.
David Okuefuna, who
research and produced the series, said: "The Thirties was an
extraordinary important and pivotal phase in world history.
"Just weeks
before the new decade began, the Wall Street Crash of November 1929
propelled the world into the great global Depression.
"And just weeks
before the decade came to a close, the invasion of Poland catapulted
the nations of Europe into what would become the bloodiest war in
history."
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