User:Sayerslle/The Lost Betjemans

The Lost Betjemans is a collection of films from the early 1960s made by John Betjeman in the West Country for the ITV company in Bristol TWW, directed by Jonathan Stedall - his first films, aged only 24. Having been thought lost for many years they were found again in the vaults of HTV 30 years after they had been made.

The films included in the collection are Betjeman's films on
 * Marlborough - a poetic meditation on his hated public school Marlborough College ,
 * Bath,
 * Weston-Super-Mare,
 * Malmesbury,- "this limestone town - sacred and peculiar place - one of the chief places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages - its huge Benedictine abbey a centre of learning of European fame "
 * Bristol - a tribute to his friend Randolph Sutton, and
 * Clevedon, Somerset, a Victorian seaside town of wide streets spaciously laid out by the Eltons of Clevedon Court, patrons of art and letters