Another string to Harvey's bow !
Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 3:45 pm
I knew from his daughter that Harvey Torbett had made a cine film called "A Boy Goes Fishing," but thanks to an exchange of posts between Paul F and Keston in another thread I have now gleaned the following information.
Edited because I misread the original posts about which magazine the articles are in !!! (It's my age, you know !!! )
In the December, 1965 edition of "Creel" magazine there's an article written by Harvey entitled "Fishing ... and the Movie Camera." Apparently there's a second half in the January, 1966 issue.
I'd imagined that the film he made was a 'home cine film,' like the ones my dad took of our family for a few years ... but ...
The December 1965 article contains the following information showing it was on an entirely different level ... and I quote ... "Harvey Torbett has been making amateur films with the London Schools Film Society for many years, and one of these, "A Boy goes Fishing," won the Elizabeth Elder Trophy at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival." Sadly, none of the family have this film ... but it's maybe out there somewhere. I have another "Holy Grail."
The term "Renaissance Man" seems to fit Mr. Torbett to a T !!!
Edited because I misread the original posts about which magazine the articles are in !!! (It's my age, you know !!! )
In the December, 1965 edition of "Creel" magazine there's an article written by Harvey entitled "Fishing ... and the Movie Camera." Apparently there's a second half in the January, 1966 issue.
I'd imagined that the film he made was a 'home cine film,' like the ones my dad took of our family for a few years ... but ...
The December 1965 article contains the following information showing it was on an entirely different level ... and I quote ... "Harvey Torbett has been making amateur films with the London Schools Film Society for many years, and one of these, "A Boy goes Fishing," won the Elizabeth Elder Trophy at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival." Sadly, none of the family have this film ... but it's maybe out there somewhere. I have another "Holy Grail."
The term "Renaissance Man" seems to fit Mr. Torbett to a T !!!