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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks for the post, Bill. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"Breaking Point" is one of my favourite episodes, with hair-raising airborne action (very well staged) and taut drama on the ground. John Finch wrote a brilliant script, providing it with interesting characters
aplenty -- Jill and Derek Robbins, David Ashton and Jack Ridley, Peter Bryant and Chrissie, not to mention Jill and her suspicious mother, Mrs. Crawford.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As for the bombers, John Finch once told our group that director Bob Hird did quite an effective job making two or three aircraft appear to be a couple dozen, recycling the take-off footage from different
angles to lengthen the sequence to more realistic proportions. The filming of "Breaking Point" took place almost thirty years after the time depicted (March 1945), so not many airworthy planes remained available by then.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">That, of course, is quite a different from the Flying Fortress situation just after the war. I think of "The Best Years of Our Lives," when Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) views the B-17 graveyard in one memorable
scene. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but stripped-down bombers, being salvaged for their metal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I, too, think young Paul Brett is a natural in the role of John George Porter. He is very entertaining to watch -- partly because of his unpredictability!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Greetings to everyone in the group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Richard Veit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><afamilyatwar-list-bounces@baylor.edu> on behalf of AFAMILYATWAR-LIST <Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>AFAMILYATWAR-LIST <Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu>, "w_bradshaw@sky.com" <w_bradshaw@sky.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, June 12, 2020 at 3:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>AFAMILYATWAR-LIST <Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Afamilyatwar-list] A Family At War: Breaking Point<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Evening all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My wife and I are again enjoying the re-run of Family At War on Talking Pictures having first viewed it upon release when we were teenagers in the early 70s and again just a few years ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I love the quality of the writing and acting and the dynamic of domestic upheaval set against the backdrop of war. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I felt compelled to write after watching 'Breaking Point'...can anyone help me with thie following query?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Much, of course, has happened since the series was filmed but does anyone know the location for the airfield scenes? And I'm intrigued by the collection of American B-17 (I think) bombers, dressed in RAF livery. No CGI in those days and
they were too impressive to be models, surely?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Did we really have Fortress bombers on hand for filming in the UK 50 years ago? Any answers.much appreciated and my belated thanks to John Finch and his team plus the entire cast and crew for such a wonderful slice of British television
drama.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bill Bradshaw <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS Was the young lad who played Margaret and John Porter's son allowed to improvise ....he looks such a natural! <o:p></o:p></p>
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