Markhouse Drama Club

Markovian Films

The Markovian Film Club was one of several ‘member-led’ initiatives which steadily became a regular part of the Drama Club’s programme – with some of it’s most ‘notable’ productions hosted on the website!

With Peter Kett’s support and guidance, a good number of films were made during the clubs existence and most of these were in Standard 8 and Super 8 format. Most were also ‘silent’ – but some had sound recorded after the editing on reel to reel tape and then synchronised to the projector.

The website currently includes ‘Three’s A Crowd’, ‘Hold Up’ and ‘Daylight Robbery’- but there are several others that were made and are still to be traced – including one made ‘in’ the Hollow Pond which is believed to have featured a cast of Wellington Boot shod ‘River Police’ patrolling this inland waterway – searching for tadpoles!

If you have information on any other films, or know something about the making of the ‘Hold Up’ and ‘Daylight Robbery’ films, then please get in touch via the Contact Page; it would be good to add some further comments to these two films

 

Daylight Robbery

Not quite on the scale of ‘Grand Theft Auto’ – but this film tells the tale of a desperate teenage gang of car thieves taking advantage of local car owners parking in the roads around Hoe Street, Walthamstow; all made much worse by their audacity in setting up their ‘Used Car Sales Lot’ in the same area – in a car-park just off Queens Road!

Some 40 plus years after the film was made it was rumoured, but not believed, that the script was based on a real life account of several of the cast members!!!!

Hold Up

See the dastardly action of this violent and ruthless local gang through the ground breaking drama-documentary made by Markovian Films – where the names of the cast have been deleted to protect the witnesses!!!! See ‘Hold Up’ through the Home Page link to ‘Markovian Films’

Three’s a Crowd

‘Three’s A Crowd’ was made on location in what was, at that time, the permanent Fun Fair at Battersea Park, London – probably around 1967/8. The soundtrack was added, some several years later, by Dickie Dunn, for his ‘walthamstowhistory.com’ website – followed by a surprise ‘private screening’ for former members at the 2007 Re-Union!