Bygones

The Horsemen

Dick Joice (Autor)

Video

2002
Old Pond Publishing Ltd (Hersteller)
9781903366240 (ISBN)

Infos

At the turn of the century the work of the farm revolved around the farm horse. In 1975 the Anglia Bygones team, led by Dick Joice, filmed some remarkable men in their eighties and nineties who had worked with farm horses from before the First World War.

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The regularity of the horseman's day, the hierarchy in the stable, the high standards of workmanship, the secrets of ointments and horse lore-they talked about it all, and the Bygones team re-created their working lives. They showed ploughing, drilling, rolling, haymaking and harvest, as well as the farrier and the travelling stallion. The 1914-18 war was the point at which this way of work began to change, with so many horses commandeered for army haulage and the first inroads made by the farm tractor. Based on research by George Ewart Evans, this 'Bygones Special' is a memorable and accurate record of a past age. Originally made and broadcast in 1975 as part of the "Bygones" series on Anglia Television, this video is devised and scripted by Geoffrey Weaver.

Autor

The son of a farmer, Dick Joice was born in Great Ryburgh near Fakenham, Norfolk in 1921. He took over his father's tenancy on the Townsend Estate in 1940 and it was a chance conversation with his landlord, The Marquess Townsend, in 1958 that was to launch his new career in television. Lord Townsend, chairman of the new Anglia Television, recognised that programmes for the farming community would be a vital part of the new service and asked Dick to help plan them. From 1959 Dick Joice presented Anglia's weekly Farming Diary as well as the nightly news programme About Anglia. In 1965 he was appointed head of local programmes and became a director of the company. As he revealed in his autobiography, Full Circle, Dick Joice had always collected things: 'I was born with a naturally acquisitive and inquisitive nature, always wanting to find out how things worked and where they came from.' This enthusiasm led to the half-hourly Bygones programmes that ran from 1967 for about twenty years. Most items on the programme were allotted 7-10 minutes, but occasionally a subject came along that could be made as a 'special' for thirty minutes or more. The Harvest was the programme that he remembered with particular affection. Dick Joice's own collection of bygones was enormous. In the late 1970s this was to find a permanent exhibition site at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Dick Joice died in 1999. [information: Farmers Guide magazine]

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2002
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 134 x 190 mm
• Gewicht: 87 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9781903366240 / 9781903366240
• Zustand: Neuware