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Battersea Park (Fun Palace outtakes)
A roller-coaster, lawn bowls and international sculpture exhibition are all covered in this short film from Battersea Park, with the power station puffing in the background.
Overview
In 1963, Joan Littlewood was putting together a film about what Londoners did for pleasure, and this took her to Battersea Park, where she filmed the 1963 Sculpture Exhibition – including work by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Seymour Lipton and Herbert Ferber – and the exterior of the funfair. She also filmed games of tennis and lawn bowls, and, incongruously, an old lady peeling a potato. Battersea Power Station can sometimes be seen in the background.
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