{"id":6107,"date":"2018-08-14T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:05:03","slug":"spitfire-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/08\/14\/spitfire-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Spitfire (1942)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free on Archive.org, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Spitfire_861\">Spitfire<\/a><\/em> (1942), which was the wartime feature-film story of the life and work of Stoke-on-Trent&#8217;s Reginald Mitchell &mdash; who designed the Spitfire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/spitfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/spitfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"588\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very grainy and poor copy, presumably dug out of the archive of some U.S. TV station, having fallen into the public domain in the USA.  But it&#8217;s free.  Though know that the USA version was cut down to 90 minutes, while the UK version runs 118 minutes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/still.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have some spare cash, there was a Blu-ray disc some years ago, using the movie&#8217;s British title <em>The First of the Few<\/em>, which was &#8220;digitally restored&#8221; (see above picture) and the full 118 minute version.  One buyer on Amazon UK comments &#8220;don&#8217;t try to save a few quid with the unrestored one. The quality of the picture on the re-mastered edition is superb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It seems another good source for a locally-flavoured graphic novel, which could have the first three chapters set in Stoke-on-Trent, and later flashbacks.  It would probably have to be a graphic novel, since a straightforward non-political bio-pic movie would be impossible to fund today. It would only get funding if it could be dragged out-of-shape by having various contemporary political angles inserted into it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/chapel-st-butt-lane-newcastle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/chapel-st-butt-lane-newcastle.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free on Archive.org, Spitfire (1942), which was the wartime feature-film story of the life and work of Stoke-on-Trent&#8217;s Reginald Mitchell &mdash; who designed the Spitfire. It&#8217;s a very grainy and poor copy, presumably dug out of the archive of some U.S. TV station, having fallen into the public domain in the USA. But it&#8217;s free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}