The Boy Who Turned Yellow
72 minutes, 1972
Sun. Oct 15, 10:00AM, Rafael
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This delicious fantasy is part of our traditional screening of a rare children's classic. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger produced some of the finest films of the 1940s and '50s, including big-budget family favorites like The Red Shoes (1948, MVFF 2005) and The Thief of Baghdad. Later in their careers they produced this marvelous low-budget British TV film about a young boy turned yellow by aliens. Framed as a daydream, the story uses TV as a dream-medium, through which our young hero surfs the airwaves in a unique way. Print courtesy of the Children's Film Foundation and the British Film Institute. — J. Morrison
Director: Michael Powell
Producer: Emeric Pressburger
Screenwriter: Emeric Pressburger
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
Editor: Peter Boita
Cast: Mark Dightman, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth
Print Source: BFI Collections
Conservation Centre
Kings Hill Way
Berkhamsted, Hertforshire, HP4 3TP
UK
PRECEDED BY:
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