Sorry about the late notice – please check your TV schedules to ensure this is still happening:
“The first of several programmes celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Dambusters Raids will be screened on Tue Oct 29 at 2100 on C5.
Produced by award-winning documentary makers Windfall Films, it uses never-before-screened archive film, reconstruction & computer simulation to tell the story of Barnes-Wallis’s experiments to porduce the Bouncing Bomb, culminating in the now-famous daring raids on the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder Damns on the night of 16/17 May 1943.
The producer’s aim has been to capture the imagination os a generation of youngsters who have little knowledge or interest in WW2.”
I can’t get C5 – so I look forward to the de-brief on the forum!
By: Bob - 30th October 2002 at 20:17
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
Damien,
Can I unbolt the door and turn the lights back on then? 😉
By: Seafuryfan - 30th October 2002 at 20:06
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
Yeh, Cheers Damien B, my thanks going off too.
By: Moggy C - 30th October 2002 at 19:59
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
Thanks for those links.
I’ll add my praise too.
Moggy
By: Moggy C - 30th October 2002 at 01:26
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
Truly excellent, even through the Channel 5 snowstorm.
I could easily be persuaded to buy a video (Or DVD if I had a DVD player)
I got up from my bed of pain to watch it, and it was well worth the effort.
The slightly speeded-up jerky treatment of the reconstructed period film became a tiny bit annoying after a while, but otherwise great!
Moggy
Isn’t it typical? I logged onto te BBC website to complain about their treatment of Angus Deayton, but haven’t yet contacted C5 to praise them for this film. What a nation of moaners we are.
By: David_Kavangh - 29th October 2002 at 22:17
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
What a superb programme. OK we have all heard the story before, but no benefit of hindsight rubbish. Just the facts as they were known then. George Charmers, Edward Johnson, Fred Sutherland, Ken Brown appearing (sadly, two of whom are no longer with us) and Gibson’s dog named (OK so they made clear that you would not name your black dog after Gibson’s dog today). Perhaps a bit more on Barnes Wallis and the other things he invented, but you can’t have everything. I may even watch Channel five again.
By: Seafuryfan - 29th October 2002 at 22:06
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
Saw it at a mates house. Very enjoyable. I particularly liked the recreation of dams busting experiments, the interviews with crew members, and the blending of WWII / The Dambusters / modern footage in that ‘WWII colour film’ effect.
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th October 2002 at 17:45
RE: Dambusters Progamme on C5
>Produced by award-winning documentary makers Windfall Films,
>it uses never-before-screened archive film, reconstruction &
>computer simulation to tell the story of Barnes-Wallis’s
>experiments to porduce the Bouncing Bomb, culminating in the
>now-famous daring raids on the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder Damns
>on the night of 16/17 May 1943.
>
>The producer’s aim has been to capture the imagination os a
>generation of youngsters who have little knowledge or
>interest in WW2.”
Erm, Bob, would you please be so kind as to pass me that bit of pie you mentioned earlier…? 😉
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October 29, 2002 at 5:22 pm