Jack Hargreaves

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by sibadd

Excuse a very belated addition to this thread. I've only just registered here. I'm Jack Hargreaves stepson, growing up with him and my mother between 1948-1962. I'm posting some of his episodes from Old Country that have been sent me by viewers who recorded them off air, on YouTube and Vimeo. Unlike the commercial DVD series which were never broadcast whole, though using superb location film by JH's long term cameraman Stan Bréhaut, these Old Country sequences were, with Steve Wagstaff on camera.

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?sq=Hargreaves

Jack Hargreaves on Vimeo

With help from an informal group of friends, some known only via the web, I am trying to get more of my stepfather's material into the public domain. Kindest regards Simon s.j.baddeley@bham.ac.uk

No videos were found on youtube.

[DorsetDunk]

a friend of mine who is the son of game keeper so naturally brought up with fishing and shooting actually met him in a pub while on a shoot when his was a youngster and of course he was a huge fan so he sidled over to jack all timid hoping for a quick few words and an autograph so he got to the table where jack was eating lunch and introduced himself jack took one look at him and told him in no uncertain terms where to go because he was eating his lunch
it turned out That Jack hated talking to fans and shunned the publicity all he could
my friend being a nipper at the time was heart broken but has forgiven Jack for his outburst well I assume he has because he bought the DVD box set

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by DorsetDunk

a friend of mine who is the son of game keeper so naturally brought up with fishing and shooting actually met him in a pub while on a shoot when his was a youngster and of course he was a huge fan so he sidled over to jack all timid hoping for a quick few words and an autograph so he got to the table where jack was eating lunch and introduced himself jack took one look at him and told him in no uncertain terms where to go because he was eating his lunch
it turned out That Jack hated talking to fans and shunned the publicity all he could
my friend being a nipper at the time was heart broken but has forgiven Jack for his outburst well I assume he has because he bought the DVD box set

You cant blame him I hate being interrupted when eating I find it very rude and it must so hard for "celebs" to be civil all the time..they are human after all..

[RobinJohn]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

You cant blame him I hate being interrupted when eating I find it very rude and it must so hard for "celebs" to be civil all the time..they are human after all..

Quite right too, everyone is entitled to a little bit of privacy in their lives.

R.

[nightshade]

Most older people are in a better mood after they have eaten, poor little chap should have waited.

[Dorts]

We had a similar thread back in April:

The Old Country (Jack Hargreaves)

Having met Jack and having been in one of his 'Out of Town' programmes, I posted this piece.

"When I was about 29-30, Jack did one of his 'Out of Town' programmes about me! At the time I was a bit of a 'Wild Rover' and spent some of my time going round painting and restoring among other things, Gipsy Caravans, Totters Carts, Little 'Spinners', Old Farm Wagons etc.

At this time, early 70's, I also happened to be painting a Circus Ring and other bits of circus paraphanalia for a friend who traveled with his circus to Ireland each summer. This chap was a close friend of Jack Hargreaves and when Jack turned up one day, (in his Rolls Royce that he drove!) and saw what I was doing, he suggested there was enough content for one of his half-hour programmes.

A story-line was quickly 'hatched' and within a couple of hours the filming of me painting various intricate bits and pieces of the circus arena, whilst being watched by a group of the horse-dealers children who owned the circus, was completed.

The film was shown and everyone in my village watched.

Jack H. was a lovely chap, and although very business minded, he greatly appreciated the old country skills and traditions.
All of his films (no video then) where shot by one man, no sound, on an Ariflex 16mm film camera.
The filming was edited as he went, as much as possible, to save studio time and money. So it was necessary for me to re-enact several scenes from different angles to give the impression of more than one camera.
I was very impressed with this 'Ariflex' and asked how much it cost. "£15,000" was the answer, an enormous amout of money then. "you must have to look after that well?" I suggested. "This is the 5th. one I have had since I've been working with Jack, all the others I have dropped in the sea!"

Wonderfull memories of bygone days."
Dorts.

[sibadd]

Dear D. Thanks so much for that story about Stan. £15K! It's difficult to imagine. I met up a last time with Stan only months before he passed away. It was only then he told me (my stepfather never did) that when he and Jack were filming me from a motor boat in the Solent in 1965 as I sailed away to cross the Atlantic, they waved at me. I waved back. They waved even more. So did I. It was a moving farewell. Stan told me they were waving so much because their camera boat was sinking and they were trying to get me to turn back. Bailing constantly, they just made it into Yarmouth, Ariflex, on that occasion, saved. Simon