As the 50th Anniversary year of the original Swallows and Amazons film draws to a close, Sophie Neville looks back at the making of the film and forward to what still might be half-a-century on… “The smell is just the same.” Suzanna Hamilton began rowing me across Coniston Water from Bank Ground Farm, taking us […]
Amazon, the traditional sailing dinghy that features alongside Swallow in the classic film Swallows and Amazons, will be on display outside the Riverside Cinema, Woodbridge, Suffolk, this Saturday, 13th July, when the film, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is being screened at 2pm. As well as celebrating the anniversary, the event – organised by TARS East […]
Next weekend (29th and 30th June) sees the 50th Anniversary celebration of the original Swallows and Amazons film in the Lake District at the Windermere Jetty Museum. Hosted by the Arthur Ransome Society, the weekend will see the reuniting of the cast and crew with the restored Swallow and Amazon dinghies from the film. There […]
A memorial tribute to the life and work of the late Richard Pilbrow, producer of the original Swallows and Amazons film, was held last month (May 2024) at National Theatre in London. The presentation was put together by his son, Fred Pilbrow, who invited Sophie Neville (who played Titty Walker in the film) to contribute […]
Keen fans of Claude Whatham’s original film ‘Swallows and Amazons’ gathered at the Cinema Museum in London last Saturday for the 50th Anniversary celebrations hosted by the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, writes Sophie Neville. After the doors opened at 1.00pm, delicious food and drink was served in the main hall where Hugh Grant held […]
The premiere of Richard Pilbrow’s movie Swallows and Amazons was held 50 years ago at the ABC cinema in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on 4th April 1974, as a Royal Gala charity matinee in aid of the charity KIDS. This Saturday (6th April 2024) sees a 50th Anniversary Screening of the film followed by a Q&A […]
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Swallows and Amazons film, with some very special events to celebrate the occasion. On Saturday 6th April at 2.00pm there will be a 50th Anniversary Screening of the film followed by a Q&A session with cast and crew at the Cinema Museum in London. This event […]
Amazon, the iconic dinghy used in both the 1974 film and 1963 BBC TV serial of Swallows and Amazons, will be on display at this month’s Southampton International Boat Show, while Sophie Neville, who captured Amazon when she played Able Seaman Titty in the 1974 film, will be giving 4 illustrated talks at the show […]
On this day, fifty years ago, the filming of Swallows and Amazons began in the Lake District, writes Sophie Neville… 14th May 1973 was the first day of making the original movie Swallows & Amazons on location in the Lake District. A huge effort had been made to set-dress Haverthwaite Railway Station, at the southern […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of making the Swallows and Amazons film in the Lake District, with the very first day of filming being on 14th May 1973 at the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Steam Railway, also celebrating its 50th, writes Sophie Neville… Earlier this year David Wood, the award-winning playwright who adapted Swallows and […]
Sophie Neville tells the tale of the tooth that went missing during the filming of the original Swallows and Amazons film, and how she got it back last year… In May 2021 I spoke to Helen Millican on BBC Radio Cumbria about making the original film of Swallows and Amazons in the Lake District, back […]
Sophie Neville reveals more behind-the-scenes memories of the original Swallows and Amazons film that she has received following another TV showing of the film… The original film of Swallows and Amazons was screened on Talking Pictures TV last summer. The BBC Radio 4 newscaster Alan Smith wrote to me afterwards, saying: “It’s Alan Smith here – lovely […]
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