Visit, The
Date: 1959
Director: Jack Gold
Production Company: British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund
Stars: Alice Spaul, Eunice Phelps, George Wood
Location(s): London
Region(s): London T-Z
Storyline:
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes a middle-aged spinster painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
The film is available as a special feature on the BFI’s ‘Room at the Top’ DVD.
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- Capture 1
- 20 Jun 2023
The film opens with a view of the street where Alice Hughes lives with her retired parents. Facing north on Ballantine Street SW18 with a train standing in Wandsworth Town station in the distance and the Gasworks beyond.
Apartments continue to replace gasworks. SJ
- Capture 2
- 29 Jul 2026
After taking a cup of tea up to her Mum and Dad in bed, Alice walks to the factory where she works. Dave W finds us in what was Bonamy Street, SE1 looking towards 294 St. James's Road. (RL)
Looking west with a match on the right (292 & 290 still standing in the terrace). SJ
- Capture 3
- 20 Jun 2023
Mrs. Hughes (Eunice Phelps) sweeps the short pathway at the front of the house. Outside numbers 39 and 41 Ballantine Street in Wandsworth.
Smarter looking now. The east side. SJ
- Capture 4
- 'Now' required
With nothing else to fill his day, Alice’s Father (George Wood) watches children playing. Looking towards Windsor House across Cumberland Market in NW1 located by Julia Gray.
- Capture 5
- 29 Jul 2026
At lunch time, Alice Hughes (Alice Spaul) leaves the factory to buy provisions. Not currently the stores of his choice, but Dave W believes he could be tempted, when the weather is fine, to Dean's Stores, 150-152 Southwark Park Road, London SE16. (RL)
Looking west with, on the left, a wall of The Queen Victoria (no. 148) on the corner of Monnow Road, a probable match. SJ
- Capture 6
- 20 Jun 2023
Daylight fades as Alice makes her way home from her monotonous day at work to find her parents asleep in the darkened house. Looking toward numbers 31 to 35 Ballantine Street.
Pity about the car in the way. SJ
- Capture 7
- 20 Jun 2023
On leave from the Army, Kenny (David Copsey) and his fiancée Anne (Anne Corby) make their way to visit his grandparents and cousin. The corner of Ballantine Street and Podmore Road in SW18 with the entrance to Wandsworth Town station on York Road in the right distance.
Windows added but sign retained. SJ
- Capture 8
- 20 Jun 2023
Having checked that they are in the right street, the young couple walk briskly towards number 39. Facing numbers 2 and 4 Ballantine Street in Wandsworth.
The best angle given the parked cars. SJ
- Capture 9
- 20 Jun 2023
Holding hands, Kenny and Anne cross the road. Looking south on Ballantine Street SW18 with properties on Dighton Road in the distance.
More trees and aerials. SJ