The Children's Film Foundation Collection

[James78]

For over thirty years, The Children’s Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British film-making talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to our screens in newly remastered editions.



'Skid Kids' included:



'Skid Kids', 'A Good Pull-Up' and 'Watch Out' included:



'The Boy Who Turned Yellow' included:



'Adventure in the Hopfields' included:



'Johnny on the Run' included:



'A Ghost of a Chance' included:



'The Last Rhino' included:



'Robin Hood Junior' included:



"Haunters of the Deep" included:



'Danger on Dartmoor' included:

[James78]

BFI press release for the upcoming Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box:



A wizard weekend for all the family is guaranteed with this carefully curated assortment of tasty cinematic treats from the Children’s Film Foundation: Britain’s best-loved and longest-running producer of quality cinema entertainment for kids of all ages. In this Bumper Box, released on 22 October 2018, the BFI brings together nine fantastic films on 3 discs with special features including a brand new documentary about the CFF.

Stand well back for 1960s bonfire-night fun in Peril for the Guy (1956), have a classic kick-about with George Best and Bobby Charlton at Manchester United in Cup Fever (1965) and share your orange squash with an incredible invisible rabbit in Mr Horatio Knibbles (1970)!

Take your seats in the Big Top for circus hi-jinx with Anoop and the Elephant (1972), befriend the world’s only ice-lolly-loving Yeti in The Zoo Robbery (1973) and become a young 1970s eco-warrior for The Battle of Billy’s Pond (1976).

Attempt to avert nuclear disaster in the nail-biting One Hour to Zero (1976), chase cockney crooks down London’s canals as you join 4D Special Agents (1981) and enlist The Who’s Roger Daltrey to back your 1980s reggae band on Brighton Pier in Pop Pirates (1984)!

And that’s just the films – there are extras and an illustrated booklet too. Do your filmhistory revision fun-style with a new interview with veteran CFF writer John Tully (16 mins) and The Children’s Film Foundation Story (84 mins) – a fabulous new featurelength documentary telling the true tale of the Foundation and the talents who worked there. There are interviews with CFF luminaries including John Krish, Harley Cokeliss and a cast of thousands! Last, but not least, there are three 1950s canine crackers from the CFF vaults, Rover Makes Good, Juno Helps Out and To the Rescue.

Product details RRP: £29.99/ Cat. no. BFIV2083 / Cert PG UK / 1956-1984 / colour, black and white / total runtime 507 mins / English language / original aspect ratio 1.37:1 / 3 x DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio (192kbps)

[Porco Azzurro]

Originally Posted by James78

and share your orange squash with an incredible invisible rabbit in Mr Horatio Knibbles (1970)!

Bit of a childhood fave, this one. So happy it’s getting a legit release at long last. It’s properly hilarious, IMHO.

[fatboyslim142]

Don Chaffey's Skid Kids (1953) appears in this collection, so you might want to add this to the list with an explanation explaining why.



ALL the German ones have NON-removable subs.

Also you should include these as they are CFF releases. On these Network Volumes the extras include 8 (out of 18) adventures of The Magnificent Six 1/2 spread across the four volumes.










The following 2 are available, in HD, as extras on the following Powerhouse BDs.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (Age of Consent)
Adventure in the Hopfields (Town On Trial)



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[fatboyslim142]

Renown Pictures are releasing this 1966 Christmas film.



https://www.renownfilms.co.uk/produc...tmas-glimpses/

[Si Parallel Universe]

Marvelous stuff regarding these releases. So glad the CFF is getting some updated attention

[gouryella]

Can't see this mentioned but this upcoming Bfi release of Cosh Boy has the CFF Johnny On The Run 1953 on.

[Si Parallel Universe]

Can the Four Network DVDs be added to the first post please James ?

[James78]

Treasure at the Mill (1957)
Wings of Mystery (1963)
Seventy Deadly Pills (1963)
Go Kart Go (1963)
A Ghost of a Chance (1968)
The Sea Children (1973)
Sky Pirates (1976)
The Mine and the Minotaur (1980)
Friend or Foe (1981)

A sizzling Saturday-afternoon sofa-thon is in store with this mouth-watering melange of cinematic corkers from the Children’s Film Foundation: Britain’s best-loved and longest-running producer of quality children’s cinema for kids of all ages. Released in a 3-disc DVD set by the BFI on 16 March 2020, Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 2, brings together nine fantastic films and additional special features; witness long-lost sights and sounds of the British Isles in A Letter from the Isle of Wight, A Letter from Wales and A Letter from Ayrshire – three 1950s movie-missives; actor-turned-pop idol Simon Fisher Turner spills the beans on working for the CFF in the 1970s and Friend or Foe director John Krish appears in his final filmed interview. Here’s the run-down on these top-drawer vintage feature-film smashers:

Disc 1:
Chase civil war booty in Lone Pine series author Malcolm Saville’s Treasure at the Mill; hunt secret formulas with Arnold ‘Dad’s Army’ Ridley in Wings of Mystery and cheer on Sally ‘Man About the House’ Thomsett and hiss at Warren ‘Alf Garnett’ Mitchell and his Seventy Deadly Pills!

Disc 2:
Step on the gas with Dennis ‘Minder’ Waterman and Wilfrid ‘Steptoe’ Brambell in Go Kart Go, shout Boo! at haunted-house developers Ronnie
Barker and his bumbling lackey Bernard ‘Dr Who’ Cribbins in A Ghost of a Chance and save the earth with a tribe of aquatic eco-warriors in The Sea Children.

Disc 3:
Take off for a model-plane Battle of Britain with Bill ‘Heartbeat’ Maynard in Sky Pirates, go underground in The Mine and the Minotaur and face the folly of war in Friend or Foe.

The first pressing includes an illustrated booklet with an essay and notes on the films and extras by BFI Video Producer Vic Pratt.

Product details:
RRP: £29.99/ Cat. no. BFIV2082 / Cert PG
UK / 1957–1981 / colour, black and white / total runtime 493 mins / English language /
original aspect ratio 1.33:1 / 3 x DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio (192kbps)

[gouryella]

While looking at the available releases of CFF films I stumbled across one called Treasure at the Mill (1957). It appears on a dvd titled Treasure and Trouble released in 2008.

[James78]

Originally Posted by gouryella

While looking at the available releases of CFF films I stumbled across one called Treasure at the Mill (1957). It appears on a dvd titled Treasure and Trouble released in 2008.

Thank you, but Treasure at the Mill is available remastered in 2K on the lastest BFI release.

[Eidolon]

Regarding the various releases by BFI, do the Bumper Boxes feature any of the same films that are on other previous sets? Or are they all new to the Bumper Boxes? Thanks.

[James78]

Hi Eidolon, there are no crossovers on BFI CFF releases. However, some films are also available on separate DVD and Blu-ray releases. Please see the first post.

[fatboyslim142]

The Last Rhino 1961 CFF film (55:28), presumably in HD, is included as an extra in this BFI release:

[James78]

For over 30 years, The Children's Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to out screens. The Bumper Box Collection Vol.3 includes the following CFF adventures:

The Clue of the Missing Ape
Adventure in the Hopfields
Tim Driscoll’s Donkey
Runaway Railway
Calamity the Cow
Cry Wolf
Big Wheels and Sailor
Breakout
Our Exploits at West Poley

As always the films feature a plethora of familiar faces, including George Cole, Melvyn Hayes, John Moulder-Brown, Ronnie Barker, Shelia Reid, Brenda Fricker and of course last but not least, the one and only Phil Collins!

Extras

• Watch Out (1953, 18 mins)
• That's an Order (1955, 18 mins)
• Playground Express (1955, 18 mins)
• Other extras TBC
• Illustrated booklet with a new writing on the films by the BFI's Vic Pratt

[HillSprinter]

I grew up watching these. I believe many were shown on Friday afternoons on BBC1. I’d love to see the whole collection on Blu-ray someday.

[James78]

• Our Magazine No 2 (1952, 10 mins): newsreel aimed at youngsters
• Carry On laughing with Brit-comedy legend Peter Butterworth in three rare slapstick comedy shorts: Watch Out (1953, 18 mins), That’s an Order (1954, 18 mins) and Playground Express (1954, 16 mins)
• Before Its Time: The Battle of Billy’s Pond (2021, 13 mins): in this new mini-doc, CFF alumnus Harley Cokeliss revisits his eco-aware film for the Foundation from 1976 (featured on the first Bumper Box)
• Illustrated booklet with an essay and notes on all the films and extras by BFI Video Producer Vic Pratt and a Screen Test quiz.

[fatboyslim142]

Robin Hood Junior (1975): Children’s Film Foundation spin on the folk hero starring actor and television presenter Keith Chegwin as the young outlaw is included in this Indicator Hammer release.

[SilverFox84]

I remember seeing a few of these in primary school as a monthly movie treat at school.

'The Boy Who Turned Yellow' is a real time-capsule for what London and the Underground were like back then. It's almost like a historical artifact

[James78]

Duff up some 1950s jewel thieves after you hide your pets from the council-estate rent collector in The Dog and the Diamonds, thwart sinister spies then jump out of an aeroplane as you ride The Stolen Airliner, then hope Michael ‘Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em’ Crawford’s trousers stay up as he tootles away in Blow Your Own Trumpet!

Hit the road as Sixties beatniks help you chase an old piano across town in The Missing Note, wrestle salmon straight out of the river in The Big Catch and thwart blundering crook Bernard ‘Carry On’ Bresslaw’s attempts to snaffle a secret formula from a barmy boy-inventor in Blinker’s Spy-Spotter!

Vanquish a time-travelling, fire-breathing dragon with Bob ‘The Benny Hill Show’ Todd in The Flying Sorcerer, stage a fierce Seventies-style eco-protest with a magical seal-man in Mr Selkie, and disappear deep inside your 1980s home computer in Gabrielle and the Doodleman with Matthew ‘Stars in Their Eyes’ Kelly, Lynsey ‘Rock Bottom’ de Paul and Eric ‘The Plank’ Sykes!

Plus sundry smashing shorts! Horsey hi-jinks and sneaky saddle-snappery in Stable Rivals, saggy socked seaside shenanigans in Swift Water, the Chiffy Kids meet Kenny ‘Dr Terror’s House of Horrors’ Lynch and Harry H ‘Steptoe and Son’ Corbett in Pot Luck and Alice the Chimp in The Big Kick, reminders of pre-internet pastimes in Our Magazine No 4, and a brand spanking new documentary revisiting some of the greatest ever CFF film locations.