Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.
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Robert Griffiths
- Ted Stoner
- (as Robert Griffith)
Arthur Denton
- Canal Official
- (uncredited)
Jack Watson
- Lockkeeper
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe film premièred on Monday 24th September 1945 at London's the Tivoli Cinema on the Strand. It was second feature in a double bill to And Then There Were None (1945).
- GoofsSeveral times the boat is going from Braunston to Blisworth (heading south), but the lock in use is Stoke Bruerne top lock, which is south of Blisworth and going the wrong way (locking up which is northbound).
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: During the making of this picture we received generous help from canal workers of every kind. We wish to thank them warmly.
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An interesting way of life
Airplanes and motorcars and railways have left the canals of Great Britain far behind as our canals like the Erie Canal in my region of America. Today they exist as artificially made rivers hopefully with a fish in them.
But the canals had a revival of sorts as a method of transporting war material during World War II which lasted two years longer for them than it did for us. Painted Boats is an interesting mixture of documentary about the canals with a boy/girl story of two young people who are the latest generation of families who work the barges and locks of Britain's canal system. Jenny Laird and Robert Griffiths are the two young people who meet and plan to marry but Mr. Hitler disrupts all those plans.
These people's whole lives are wrapped up in the canal system from cradle to grave. When you either run a boat or the locks there's little need to know anything else. A really telling scene in this film is when Laird and her mother May Hallatt sign a new contract with a company and sign with "Xs". No need for literacy on a barge.
Painted boats is an interesting story of a time gone by in the United Kingdom.
But the canals had a revival of sorts as a method of transporting war material during World War II which lasted two years longer for them than it did for us. Painted Boats is an interesting mixture of documentary about the canals with a boy/girl story of two young people who are the latest generation of families who work the barges and locks of Britain's canal system. Jenny Laird and Robert Griffiths are the two young people who meet and plan to marry but Mr. Hitler disrupts all those plans.
These people's whole lives are wrapped up in the canal system from cradle to grave. When you either run a boat or the locks there's little need to know anything else. A really telling scene in this film is when Laird and her mother May Hallatt sign a new contract with a company and sign with "Xs". No need for literacy on a barge.
Painted boats is an interesting story of a time gone by in the United Kingdom.
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- bkoganbing
- Nov 11, 2017
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- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Girl of the Canal (1945) officially released in Canada in English?
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