Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”, which is currently on the BBC until 16th May 2020.
Sophie Neville, aged 12, rowing a skiff at home in Gloucestershire in April 1973 when she was preparing to appear as Titty in the EMI-Theatre Projects feature film of “Swallows and Amazons”. This was before she had her hair cut for the part. She made a sail out of an old green dust sheet which she hoisted up a homemade mast before sailing off up the lake with her father…
You can read the whole story by Sophie Neville, who starred as “Titty Walker” in the film, in the second edition of her book “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)“, which you can buy from our Nancy Blackett shop.
Video © Sophie Neville. All rights reserved.
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