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The Old Rectory

1981 , Banningham (Norfolk)

Cat no. 345

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The Old Rectory, Banningham.

The film begins with shots of the church and then exterior views of the Rectory. Most of the film is shot inside the rectory and shows many rooms, including a bedroom, the staircase landing and a sitting room. The rooms are crowded with furniture, and antiques of all kinds and of many ages. The house and its collections are owned by Bryan Hall, a picture restorer. He is seen at work on a seventeenth century portrait during the film. These shots are intercut with sequences showing the contents of the house. These include mechanical clocks, a four-poster bed, numerous portraits, musical instruments, china and toys, including a speaking picture book. There is a collection of Edwardian photographs and some of these, showing interior scenes of children in the Church and scenes along the river feature in the film.

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The Old Rectory, Banningham

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Mr. Hall also had a large collection of Victorian Valentine's cards. He inherited part of his collection from his father, the Rev. William Hall of Smallburgh, who retired in 1959 and died in 1966.Denis Mitchell was born in Cheshire on 1 August, 1911. He married his third wife, Linda Webster, in 1965. He died in Great Massingham, Norfolk on 30th September, 1990. his 1955 film for the Special Enquiry series about London teenagers won an award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival. He was one of the first independent television producers. He won the Italia Prize in 1959 for Morning In The Streets and again in 1964 for Wedding On Saturday. He won the Prix Italia Critics Prize for Chicago. In 1975 he won the Desmond Davis Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television.

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