Thursday, October 01, 2009

Far From the Madding Crowd

Another 60s film (67) that deals Victorian England (the other is the 68 film Charge of the Light Brigade) that was influential to me was this one set in rural Dorset. You could happily watch the two movies as a double-bill that goes to explain the 1960s obsession with all things Victorian a little. This was the subject that intrigued me when I first started this blog - why were the artists in the 1960s so interested in Victorian England? Anyway this clip is filmed at Maiden Castle, an Iron Age Hill Fort.