Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3370 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU | 1958 | 1958-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 5 mins Credits: Eric Bolderson Subject: Family Life |
| Summary A comedy by Eric Bolderson, this is a film of a husband and wife and the mix-ups between camera equipment and cake decorations. It is accompanied with a background of Hawaiian music. |
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Description
A comedy by Eric Bolderson, this is a film of a husband and wife and the mix-ups between camera equipment and cake decorations. It is accompanied with a background of Hawaiian music.
The film opens with a woman (the 'wife' being played by Eric's wife Irene) who is sitting, watching a home movie in the kitchen. At the end of the film the husband (played by fellow cine filmmaker and chemist at Ferrybridge, Stan Jones) putting away the projector whilst she starts to pin up her...
A comedy by Eric Bolderson, this is a film of a husband and wife and the mix-ups between camera equipment and cake decorations. It is accompanied with a background of Hawaiian music.
The film opens with a woman (the 'wife' being played by Eric's wife Irene) who is sitting, watching a home movie in the kitchen. At the end of the film the husband (played by fellow cine filmmaker and chemist at Ferrybridge, Stan Jones) putting away the projector whilst she starts to pin up her hair before going to bed. He notices that the arm of the projector is a bit loose but continues to put the projector case on and put it away in a kitchen cupboard. His wife is upstairs preparing herself for bed in the mirror, with typical 1950s wallpaper. As he puts away the projector he notices a small ball bearing on the floor. Assuming this to be a missing part from the projector he gets it back out again to replace it. In the process he manages to cut his thumb. He then sets about wrapping this thumb with lots of bandage, so much so that he can no longer use it.
Meanwhile his wife lies in bed and the clock shows that it is now 1.20am. She then wakes up and looks at the clock on the side table before rolling over to go back to sleep. Downstairs the husband continues to take the projector apart because he cannot work out where the ball bearing belongs. It is now 3am and the wife goes downstairs and gestures to her husband to come to bed. He calls her over and explains the situation. She starts to laugh as he shows her the ball bearing. She then goes into the larder and returns with a cake. She shows it to him and a close up shows that the ball bearing hasn't come from the projector but is in fact a cake decoration. They both laugh before the cake is shown with the words The End being made by the ball bearing decorations.
Context
A whimsical, cautionary, tale that looks as if it could well have been based on a real-life incident for Eric Bolderson of Castleford. It’s the 1950s, and the days when amateur filmmakers would often do adaptations and repairs to their equipment themselves, and, one can imagine, in the kitchen. Most often men, one can also imagine this annoying their wives, who would probably enjoy a good laugh at their expense.
Eric Bolderson ran a bookie’s in Castleford, following his father, and was well...
A whimsical, cautionary, tale that looks as if it could well have been based on a real-life incident for Eric Bolderson of Castleford. It’s the 1950s, and the days when amateur filmmakers would often do adaptations and repairs to their equipment themselves, and, one can imagine, in the kitchen. Most often men, one can also imagine this annoying their wives, who would probably enjoy a good laugh at their expense.
Eric Bolderson ran a bookie’s in Castleford, following his father, and was well known locally, especially for his sense of humour. This shows in many of the films he made in the 1950s and ‘60s, which he would show in a makeshift cinema in his small attic. Here he is aided by his wife Irene, and friend Stan Jones. Along with his pals in the local working men’s clubs, Eric was involved in raising money for charity, filming many, like the pram race in Castleford in 1962, and would show these in the local clubs and pubs. Eric worked mostly on his own although he was a member of Pontefract Cine Club. As well as being behind a cine camera, Eric also got to be in front of one when he played the part of the farmer in Ken Loach’s film Kes. |
