![]() Photo of Freddie Garrity in America Stanley Bielecki. The nice but maniac Freddie Garrity look-alike lorry driver. Trudging around London’s North Circular at dawn. The brand new automatic service ‘Transport Cafe’ at Forton Services, and a better one at the dead of night at the Blue Boar Services, Watford Gap. Glasgow again and day and night hitching back to London, with a Freddie and the Dreamers look-a-like driving madly over Shap. All at sea Civil Defence on the start to Glen Doll. Aviemore under construction and a Rank “Road Inn” at Loch Morlich. Four free-wheeling young wardens in the Kyle of Lochalsh and Kishorn area. Trouble brewing with the first Sabbath sailing to Kyleakin. A Tiger in his Tank at Fort William and at Glenelg an old woman with rags for shoes and a hat for a pixie. The Warden’s husband with a penchant for blokes. Walking to Scotland 1965 Journey’s End Part 8: The Cairngorms, Perth to Glasgow and a day and night hitch back to London. Jacques Tati was 4 years old when this card was posted in his town. Many French postcards of this time had planes added by postcard publishers to empty skies. The then modern French aeroplane has been added in the publishers photographic darkroom. Source Saint-German-en-Laye postcard, posted in 1911. Photo, with grateful acknowledgement, Daniel Timothy, 2008. Jacques Tati’s full name was Jacques Tatischeff. Jacques Tati’s grave in Saint-German-en-Laye, near Paris. Architecturally interesting in that the original character has mostly been preserved.Īverage 3 star ratings reviewers on Trip Advisor complained that there was no aircon, that there was no hot breakfast, that you couldn’t get a beer at 5 pm, that the exterior needed a paint, that the room was cramped and small, and that the place needed a modern eye to overhaul it.Įh bien… Au Revoir, Monsieur Hulot. Location is excellent, right on the beach. – Could hear the waves as we lay in bed at night Positive views amongst UK visitors to the Best Western Hotel de la Plage recorded on the hotel site include The restaurant is now called La Plage M.Hulot. The rooms have flat screen TVs, free Wi-Fi and there is a business lounge. The Hotel de la Plage is now the Best Western Hotel de la Plage. Greetings from the occupant of the middle upstairs hotel room of the Hotel de la Plage. Note “X” on the hotel, and middle top window. _ Carte Postale Saint-Marc-sur-Mer postcard, 1954. Nathalie Pascaud with clapperboard, Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, on location for Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday. _ Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot Jacques Tati lining up a shot on location in Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, location of Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday. It also now has a little museum dedicated to Jour de Fête and Jacques Tati. Sainte Sévère also has a filling station, a ladies hairdressers, a boulangerie, a butchers and a school. The bar in the market square has gone, but there is a restaurant elsewhere in the village that seems to be popular with passing through tourists. _ Et Maintenant?ĭespite a declining population – (1946: 1,135 2009 (last published figure) 851) – Sainte Sévère still has a post office. “Vue prise de la Route de Boussac” Sainte Sévère and to the south south east, Boussac on the N 717. _ Pour La Poste Sainte Sévère postcard, circa 1930s. The Fair tractor enters the village square along with excited village children. Jacques Tati and camera crew at Sainte Sévère. Showing in the cinema tent the modern methods of La Post en Amerique. Jacques Tati and the camera crew setting up, Sainte Sévère, 1949. Sainte Sévère, central France, location of Jour de Fete. The film was shot in Sainte Sévère in the Indre department in central France. _ Jour de Fête (1949) The Old Lady and her goat in the Place du Marche, Jour de Fete. ![]() With grateful acknowledgement to Michelin. ![]() _ Michelin France Grandes routes, 1973 edition. In particular it his first two films Jour de Fête (1949) and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) that strike a continuing – possibly nostalgic – cord. Jacques Tati directing M.Hulot’s Holiday (1953). But it was Jacques Tati who really crossed national boundaries, and still does in the 21st century. Whilst Norman Wisdom’s star has faded in Britain, he is still loved in Albania, and his films dubbbed into Hindi are popular on the internet. Fernandel Totò Norman Wisdomįrance’s Fernandel had a following in Italy, and Italy’s Totò had a following in France (the two made a film together The Law is the Law in 1958). ![]() Unlike Jacques Tati, not all the European film comedy stars of the 1950s and early 1960s crossed boundaries as easily as he did. ![]()
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