★★★★☆ For over 30 years, the Children's Film Foundation produced short films to keep younger audiences entertained in a time before television and computers. The second volume of the BFI's collection of Cff titles, The Race is On, features one of the organisation's favourites - Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1980), directed by Jeremy Summers - as well as Soapbox Derby (1957), an early production directed by Darcy Conyers, and Ealing director Charles Frend's bizarre entry, The Sky Bike (1967). First up is Soapbox Derby, which sees Peter (a young Michael Crawford), leader of 'The Battersea Bats', building a state-of-the-art go-kart to enter a local contest.
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- 2/19/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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