the football factory ( film )
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lads' country... danny dyer, as tommy johnson, lets off steam in the football factory .
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of course a worthwhile film could be made about football hooligans, just as the american writer bill buford once wrote a genuinely enlightening book, called among the thugs, on the subject. the football factory, however, is emphatically not that film .
the football factory cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of the football factory actors includes any the football factory actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view additional information about each the football factory actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of the football factory have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
football factory isn' t self - consciously cool; it has a base, wild energy that will stay with you .
football, brotherhood and violence. what' s not to love? the blues. reds forever! !! be sure to check out the football factory 5 - part documentary series on youtube as well for the real thing .
this is not a conclusion you are invited to draw from the football factory, the much - hyped new film based on john king' s 1996 novel about the activities of london football hooligans. released on friday, timed to coincide with the climax to the domestic season and the prelude to england' s participation in euro 2004, the football factory has already attracted criticism from those whobelieve its depiction of violence to be irresponsible .
apart from being an actor, tamer is also the owner of greenwich borough football club .
danny dyer delves into the social history and sub culture of football hooliganism over the past 50 years in this 6 part documentary series. inspired by the film the football factory in which he starred, dyer embarks on a journey into football' s violent heartlands, where he discovers the firms, their main men, the stories of their major battles, as well as the culture, fashion and music that surrounds them .
i rewatched the football factory on film4 last night. i don' t harbour any real dislike for it as many do; elements of it are misunderstood and better realised than it gets credit for. i want to talk about its ending, though. you cannot end a film like the football factory does. i don' t mean it ends badly. i mean it ends wrongly .
the football factory
focuses on two different groups of english football supporters — the headhunters, who support chelsea, and the bushwhackers, who support millwall. throughout the movie, the headhunters fight with other english groups such as those supporting tottenham hotspur, liverpool, and stoke city .
based on the hit novel by john king of the same name, brit flick the football factory takes a no holds barred look at working class male culture through the eyes of four different generations .
yeah i' m not sure how i' d made it eleven years after the film' s release without seeing it either! for a while, it seemed that the football factory was a staple of british film - fans who also enjoy the beautiful game. the plot can pretty much be summed up in five words: chelsea football hooligans gon' hooligan .
the football factory is a candid snapshot of the darker side of the beautiful game. bbc tyne caught up with director nick love and actors danny dyer and tamer hassan when they hit newcastle as part of a whistlestop tour to support the film .
nick: part of me wishes i had thought of it myself as it has been a great bit of underground marketing. music plays a big part in the football factory ...
tommy johnson is a football thug. how do you make a character like that likeable ?
to condemn the film is to run the risk of sounding humourless (although not as humourless as the film). but if the football factory encourages one idiot to transgress the bounds of civilised behaviour in cardiff next week or in portugal next month, the price of love' s right to make such a film will have been too high .
an unsparing depiction of the ugly violence surrounding the beautiful game, the football factory uses jagged camera work and a pumpedup soundtrack to create a strangely seductive choreography of fists, boots and bricks on flesh .
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the craftsman was assembled in the same factory, northern scientific equipment ltd; bark street, bolton, as the witness .
rigorous analysis would conclude the football factory is about as close to the award - winning city of god as wayne rooney is to ronaldo. but, like his fight sequences, love' s point is well made .
see also, images relating to the selo factory during earlier times, as sent to me by sharon ellis .
a wrongfully expelled harvard undergrad moves to london, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism .
roald dahl’s books have entertained and entranced kids and their imaginations for decades. several successful films have been made based on his works, but the most recognisable dahl adaptation has to be the 1971 film willy wonka & the chocolate factory, based on his 1964 novel, charlie and the chocolate factory .
film vs book: the football factory in this next series of articles, iâm going to take a look at books and their subsequent translation into a film. it is often said that a novel will always be superior to its adaptations, but is this really the case? this week: the football factory. written by john king in 1997, and directed by nick love in 2004. ah, nick love. usually i wouldnât attack someone like this. love has a many a critic raining arrows on his head, ... (continued )
the football factory is more than just a study of the english obsession with football violence; it' s about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. a forgotten culture of anglo - saxon males fed up with being told they' re not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, the football factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters' extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us .
other films relationg to the selo factory, viewable at the east aglian film archive, are: catalogue no. 2843, being a 19minute film made by well - known amateur cinephotographer george sewell, featuring 16mm film processing (developing and subsequent printing to a positive) of ilfords selo amateur film stock. printing the 16mm negative film to a positive for projection was done using a schustek printer, that is reported was also capable of reducing 35mm film size down to a 16mm positive. catalogue no. 7980, being an 8minute film showing aerial footage of the selo factory and the nearby town of brentwood and surrounding areas .
there' s not a football player in sight here. the action takes place in the game' s netherworld - the streets around british football grounds where gangs of hooligans gather to beat one another senseless, all in the cause of a good day out .
selochrome roll film believed to have been phased out, the last film to bear the famous selochrome brand, derived from the 1920s selo factory name. or was it? information has come to me that there may have been a 35mm selochrome film still being tested in 1969, but it never got to market .
the basildon factory, which was built by the company, was completed in 1957. it became the factory for processing ilford' s colour films. other activities eventually (by 1964) included the making of colour prints, colour printing from transparencies and the manufacture of chemicals and equipment .
one season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control .
an impressive 90 - minute performance from all involved. with the story of misguided male bonding around their love for football and fighting, the film is like a mixture of trainspotting and fight club .
an insight on the gritty life of a bored male, chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol .
subscribe to trailers: urltoken subscribe to coming soon: urltoken subscribe to classic trailers: urltoken like us on facebook: urltoken follow us on twitter: urltoken the football factory (2004) official trailer # 1 - british movie hd the football factory is more than just a study of the english obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join... cast: director: nick love producer: jack armstrong allan niblo: urltoken stephen north frank harper jamie macdermott james richardson: urltoken rupert preston: urltoken robert blagojevic writer: nick love john king editor: stuart gazzard: urltoken james moriarty cinematographer: damian bromley composer: ivor guest
the company was acquired by xylonite in the 1980s. paul godfrey reports that the bx factory complex is / was right beside the norwichlondon liverpool street railway and viewing from the train its possible to see that demolition contractors have nearly flattened the factory (aug 2009). the site is now up for re - development .
it' s all depressingly familiar - especially if you have seen the firm, alan clarke' s 1989 bbc television film starring gary oldman as the man in charge of hostilities - although there is one crucial difference between the two movies. clarke offers analysis without empathy. the football factory, on the other hand, is half in love with these characters .
tamer: all of them have seen the film and they absolutely love it. in the film you' ve got a range of football supporters chelsea, west ham, millwall and tottenham and they' ve all mixed together to play chelsea firm. whatever football club they support, they love it. everywhere we go, people are like' football factory - what a great film'. i go onto the terraces in millwall and i' m like a celebrity. nick: the reason for that is an incomplete pirate dvd of the film got out last year and from one dvd it' s turned into an epidemic. tens of thousands of copies are going up and down the country. the thing is the pirate is only one tenth of the real film, it' s missing voiceover, music, and credits. a lot of people have seen the pirate and love it .
the leaflet advertises new ilfocolor 35mm colour negative film with free colour' contact' prints (also available as 120, 620 and 127 roll film), new ilfochrome 32 for colour transparencies and new ilfochrome 8mm cine. the black & white film range covers selochrome pan roll film, pan f 35mm, fp3 for 35mm & roll film, hp3 for 35mm & roll film and' really fast' hps for 35mm & roll film .
to watch a 9minute dufaycolor film featuring the selo film laboratory, at brentwood, essex, click here (catalogue no. 6947 of the east anglian film archive within the university of east anglia ~ uea )
amateur films are listed as selochrome, the extra fast roll film for fine grain, selo fine grain panchromatic roll film, fully colour corrected and of extreme speed and fine grain, and selo hypersensitive panchromatic roll film ,
the fastest panchromatic roll film made
.
the remainder of the film focuses on tommy trying to evade the millwall gang seeking retribution for the attack, while trying to understand the strange dreams that plague him throughout the film .
nick: the film was cast before i wrote the script. these two were in it before they even auditioned. i think if you are making a film about a subject like this which has to be absolutely believable, you can only cast people, who aren' t football thugs - danny and tamer aren' t football thugs, but they have a real understanding about male culture, tribalism and hierarchy .
this would be a subversive ending if the football factory was set up as a morality tale and stopped here. with tommy rejecting all the film' s lessons, it would upend you, making the point, if a little bluntly, that the draw of male camaraderie and the feeling of belonging is too strong to resist, and give a suggested explanation for why hooligans fight .
also embossed onto the film spool are the words
for projector use only
.
danny dyer takes you to meet the real top boys and hooligan firms throughout the uk. if you loved the football factory, and want to know more about some of the uk' s top hooligan firms, this series does it with terrific coverage of the casual movement, the most intense derbies, and the tactics of the old bill in confronting football violence. dyer is the perfect presenter for the series, as he is an ardent fan of west ham united, f. c. , a club with passionate fans and a history of football hooliganism. that passion and love for the game come through with every fixture he attends and every pint he shares with the top boys .
violence has certainly not disappeared entirely from football, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. the supporters of certain clubs still have a reputation for taking trouble around with them. at all levels, however, english football is a much nicer place to be than it was 22 years ago .
: it was the end of an era. but before the murders, the torture, the beatings and the ecstacy... before all of that, there was football. you see, football was where all the spite and the hatred first came from. on those terraces... well, it' s where it all began for me .
hp4 roll film first became available alongside hp3 (not replacing it until the end of 1969) in 120 and 127 roll film sizes, cost 4 / 6d (23p). hp4 in 35mm film size became available during 1966. the hp4 35mm film illustrated was donated by luis loubet .
the movie portrayed rudy’s father as always being very negative and unsupportive of rudy’s desire to play football; in reality, his father was not as harsh but agreed to be portrayed as such on film to make it more dramatic .
also describes the ilford processing chemistry available at the time and the suitability of each to the indivual film types .
the film director wolfgang petersen allegedly spent £111 million to bring us his vision of troy, with its panoramic battlefields, gleamingly muscular fighters and brad pitt in a leather skirt. nick love spent slightly less than £500, 000 on his film the football factory, or roughly enough to keep the cast of troy in double espressos for a fortnight. yet when the two tribes go to war - the greeks and the trojans in one, the hooligan fringe of chelsea and millwall in the other - love' s film is the one that leaves its audience feeling as though they have just been through a scrap themselves .
selo films were sold by these companies under their own labels. the' selo' company was situated in woodman road, warley, brentwood, essex. although the name' selo' was officially dropped in 1946 (see below) the brentwood factory continued to be known as' the selo factory' until it was sold and the site subsequently levelled in the early 1980s .
the football factory is not a bad a film as its reputation would suggest. its biggest crime is that john king may be regarded as a schlock and pulpy because of it. in reality, he is one of the most exciting british writers of the last twenty years, and for me deserves all the fame that has fallen at the feet of welsh and hornby. so in this case, without a doubt i go with :
while pitt and eric bana swoop and dance around each other in troy' s perfectly choreographed climactic routine, the engagement at the heart of the football factory looks like cctv footage of saturday night closing time in yeovil. grainy, indistinct, full of horrible noises, such is its ugly intensity, it sucks the air out of the cinema even as you watch .
' fp' was originally an abbreviation for fine (grain) panchromatic (film) and' hp' for hypersensitive panchromatic (film). hence, strictly grammatically, these film names should be abbreviated to f. p. and h. p. , as in the film carton of h. p. 2 shown immediately below. as this film carton is dated september 1942, it must be from some of the last batches of h. p. 2 film produced (carton images from charlie kamerman). interestingly, this 127 size roll film carton was original intended for selo ortho (chromatic) film and has a sticker relabelling the carton as hypersensitive panchromatic film .
the film follows tommy johnson (danny dyer), a football hooligan in his mid 20s who has begun to question his morals and the morals of those around him. tommy' s major conflict in the film stems from his inevitable aging. although he loves his weekend' meets', he knows he cannot possibly play forever .
the instruction leaflet with this film pack was printed in april 1934 (d34) but is presumably an instruction leaflet appropriate to all contemporary ilford film packs so may not have been printed for this specific film.' silver by the ton' lists the selochrome' super speed' film pack' s first appearance to 1935 .
during the next 30 years, ilford' s mobberley site began to concentrate on the manufacture of photographic paper. the large rolls of paper were transported to the essex factory for cutting, packing and distribution .
two new disposable black & white cameras announced in january. one is preloaded with xp2 super film (c41 process) and the other with hp5 plus film .
the word' selo' features throughout much of ilford' s history, between the 1920' s to 1968. above, and below, are shown a number of images bearing the selo name. the' selo' company, initially formed to serve a consortium of several uk photographic companies, was situated in woodman road, warley, brentwood, essex. although the name' selo' was officially dropped from this factory' s name (by ilford) in 1946, this brentwood factory continued to be known as' the selo factory' until it was sold and the site subsequently levelled in the early 1980s for some early photographs relating to this factory, see urltoken the same factory is pictured in 1973 can be seen at urltoken selo) factory. html a 1930s selo advert can be seen here urltoken a 1934 selochrome film advert can be seen here urltoken some early printing papers, including selo gaslight, can be seen here urltoken another pack of selo gaslight printing paper, believed to date to around 1940, can be seen here urltoken an interesting' selo girl' picture, probably from the 1930' s, reminiscent of the famous kodak girl advertisement, can be seen here urltoken
members of the mobberley village society have contributed various images and information regarding the early times of rajar ltd and the mobberley site. the factory is believed to have been acquired by ilford, limited, in 1928 .
sharon ellis has sent me a photograph of some of the selo factory employees in the 1960s. don cornish has let me know that this photograph was taken at the retirement of shift manager bill bassam .
) is raised throughout, in fact. cleverly, football itself is entirely absent from the film. the characters are never inside a stadium, we never see action on a pitch, no one watches or even discusses football. even when billy bright and fred go to watch their sons play, the shots we see are above the kids' head height, of the two men arguing their way into a fight. the kids shake their heads and trudge off wearily .
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in fact, this is a film that has gone down very well in certain laddish quarters. pirate copies have been doing the rounds for some time, suggesting that, even before its theatrical release this week, love' s film has achieved precisely what his tabloid critics suggest its director set out to do: glamorise the violent fringe of football .
a 9. 5mm metal cine film spool, clearly embossed with the brand name selo .
the previous ilfachrome colour reversal 35mm film becomes renamed as ilfochrome, probably late in 1961 .
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a young british soccer hooligan faces his personal damascene moment in “the football factory, ” a wannabe hard - hitting drama about blighty’s best - known export that’s as pointless as the social disease it purports to examine. made bearable by a blackly humorous streak and a couple of good performances, this cuss - filled slice of english self - loathing will appeal to [ … ]
as a uk citizen i can understand the love by usviewers for
green street
with its main character being a american who falls into football hooliganism, but as a movie ...
tamer: i think so, but the actual film is very different and has added scenes .
selo film dispenser south kensington science museum (perhaps now at the bradford media museum ?) .
once in use, the name selo survived in the film name' selochrome' until around 1968. click here, or the adverts alongside, to see how selo film was being advertised in september 1930 .
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the company makes all its own film base, i. e. the non - inflammable plastic on which the emulsions are coated. before the war this film base had to be imported, either from america or belgium, and meant expenditure of foreign currencies. now, in the £2 million factory built in association with bx plastics (see the 1946 chronoloy' slot'), all of llford' s requirements are being met .
john alexander has emailed with recollections of working in the original ilford factory site at roden street, ilford, essex, when he was a teenager. click here to read his account of those times .
ilford ltd now employ about 4, 000 people in england and over 500 abroad in subsidiary distributing companies including their new factory in australia (for pictures see the 1955 chronology' slot'). .
the football factory' s tommy johnson (danny dyer) is just such a character - a twentysomething chelsea supporter who is putting off his fate, a dead - end job and a sexless marriage, for as long as possible. he lives for the weekends, when he and the rest of the firm, an eclectic group of bullies, go out to brawl with rival supporters under the delusion that they' re battling for britain .
as such, love believed, this view of the grim underbelly of our national game was worth exploring in a film. this is not an attitude shared by most involved with football, those who would prefer to ignore it, hoping that way it might disappear of its own accord .
watch this movie... .. hooliganism and drugs... what else does a movie need... . well, could have used a little more sex, but that' s just my opinion. pure entertainment the whole way through. don' t expect to see any football in this movie. this movie portrays the passion of football... . or maybe more so, hooliganism... .. but it' s still good to be passionate about something in life, right? well written, good acting, & very humorous on top of everything else. a must see for any football (proper football, as in' soccer') fanatic, or for anyone else that is passionate about any one thing in life .
nick: when you make a film that people are interested to see, it makes life really easy. mike skinner (the streets) came to see the film and wanted to give us a song for nothing. primal scream' s bobby gillespie saw the film and wanted to give us a song. so when everyone wants to be in the film, it' s a real good footing. the film features a couple of gang fight scenes - were they difficult to co - ordinate ?
the three films illustrated are selochrome ortho, hp3 and fp3, all in 120 roll film format .
if i? m honest (and this will sound like i am stating the obvious here) football hooliganism is very much all this film is about. it offers no moral to the story, like many of the films in this genre, but a very realistic view of what goes on behind the scenes of the game. we? re used to seeing danny dyer in films containing violence and paired up again with director nick love, this film had the potential to be the film of all football hooligan films to me. now i know i' m a woman and not quite in my teens any more, but anyone who knows me, knows that i prefer lad movies and don' t shy away from the violent ones, it was a watchable film, but didn' t haven' t anything great about it .
has the pirate version helped create a buzz around the film? danny: yeah, people are going mad for the dvd .
the ilford' prentice' first appeared, a basic 120 roll film folding camera very similar to the kershaw penguin .
two new film developers, tested in amateur photographer 21st january 1970; ilfosol and perceptol .
the story of a poor boy who, with the help of winning a golden ticket into the world’s most wonderful and bizarre chocolate factory, has all of his dreams come true is a staple in moviedom. the script for the 1971 movie was written by dahl himself .
ilford hps roll film (120 size) and 35mm film introduced
the fastest film in the world
( plates had been introduced in 1952). fast panchromatic, 400asa in daylight, 320asa in tungsten light. the speed revision of 1960 raised the speed to 800asa. price; 127 film 3s / 1d (15. 5p), 120 & 620 film 3s / 5d (17p) & 36exp 35mm cassette 9s / 2d (46p). multiply these costs by around 20 to get 2008 equivalents, so the 35mm cassette of monochrome hps would cost £9. 20p and a 120 roll film £3. 40p .
i think this is jarring because it isn' t how films end. they either wrap things up, deliberately don' t wrap things up, or suggest that they might be wrapped up at some point in the future. the football factory doesn' t have to show us that tommy has grown or that he' s realised the error of his ways. it just needs to give us a minute less, or an extra minute more of
scratching beneath the initially unnerving surface, you' ll discover a film that' s less concerned with football violence and more intrigued by the destructive nature of male bonding, the male ego and male discontentment. the anticipated displays of violence are brutal, but they are both infrequent and counterbalanced by the astonishingly brazen and laughably hapless conduct of an array of aimless characters .
after sitting through a preview last night, i can only say that those fears seem justified, in a limited sort of way. as a piece of cinematic art, the football factory makes lock, stock and two smoking barrels look like wild strawberries. the only people likely to enjoy it are those already stupid enough to contemplate spending their saturday afternoons looking for what the film' s characters call
a row
. and it seems possible that by watching such events on the big screen, they will find their activities further legitimised - because that, whether the film' s director, nick love, admits it or not, is the way popular culture works on society .
based on the bestselling novel by john king, this study of middle - class england, football violence and male culture introduces you to tommy, a bored twenty - something who lives for the weekend, casual sex, watered - down lager, heavily cut drugs - - and occasionally kicking someone' s ass! tommy' s life ambles along until a violent encounter with a rival starts a war, and a series of nightmares forces tommy to question his way of life. shot in documentary style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, the football factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humor, a drug - fueled adrenaline rush about friendship, revenge and violence .
david kilcast, who worked in r & d at the brentwood factory site from 1972 - 81, tells me that the (selo) brentwood site was still operating on his departure in 1981, although shutdown plans were then well advanced .
directed by nick love, the film stars an all british cast featuring rising stars danny dyer and tamer hassan. thanks to a rough pirate copy doing the rounds, the film is already causing a buzz before it is even released !
here' s the final trailer for the movie, that was unveiled just before the film' s cinema release in march ...
ilford' s chief executive, dr a j o axford, announces planned £4m additions to the brentwood, essex, factory; a new film manufacturing block, a quality control laboratory, additional film packing areas and general site support services. expected to be' on - line' within 2 years. i also understand there was a large r & d department at or near this site, at warley, brentwood .
rise of the footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of carlton leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through london and essex in the late eighties and early nineties. it is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early' rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country .
ilford high speed delta 3200 professional film launced at photokina (10 years after kodak' s tmax 3200). ilford stole a march, however, by also introducing their film in the 120 roll format. ilford' s previous ultra high speed film was the little - loved 800asa hps, which was removed from the range in the late 1960s .
ilford 220 fp4 was available in 5 roll professional packs by either december 1971 (date of printing of the leaflet enclosed with the film pack shown left) or more likely march 1972 (the date on the box itself). the film within the box had an expiry date of january 1978, so probably packaged around 1975. by 1982, ilford 220 film was available both as fp4 and hp5 versions (see below). but 220 film never seemed to' catch on' to any great extent and by 2009 the availability of 220 film (in the uk at least) seems virtually zero .
released just before euro 2004, any film about english football hooliganism was, frankly, about as welcome as victoria beckham performing at alex ferguson' s birthday party. yet despite the decidedly controversial subject matter, nick love' s adaptation of john king' s 1996 novel provides much more than just bullyboys kicking the crap out of each other .
the address for processing was: ilford limited, colour processing unit, christopher martin road, basildon, essex. the film carton shown here contained a processed film. to see scans of a few frames, click here or on the image .
a glass fronted shop cabinet advertising selochrome film, british made by ilford limited, ilford, england .
four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to root - out their leaders. for one of the four, the line between' job' and' yob' becomes more unclear as time... see full summary »
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the competition commission report of 1960 - 69 provides valuable information about ilford' s move into the field of colour film supply and why ilfochrome was (unusually) a non - subtantive colour transparency (reversal) film, as was kodachrome .
rudy ruettiger graduated from notre dame in 1976 and worked as a graduate assistant for a year, then found a job in the insurance industry. today, rudy works primarily as an in - demand motivational speaker. in addition, rudy and his wife cheryl run the rudy foundation, which is devoted to “the support and recognition of those who aspire to fulfill their dreams through character, courage, contribution and commitment”. in 2007, the rudy foundation created the college football rudy award to honor division i football players who exhibit extraordinary characters; an equivalent award was created in 2009 to honor high school football players who exhibit the same extraordinary characteristics. rudy has co - authored several motivational books, including rudy’s insights for winning in life, and sells autographed memorabilia and merchandise .
as an examination of soccer hooliganism and its tribal psychology, film doesn’t hold a candle to an earlier brit movie, philip davis’ “i. d. , ” centered on london bobbies going undercover in the tough east end. where davis’ pic at least packed a punch in its portrayal of terrifying violence, “factory” evokes little sense of fear or horror in the viewer. in fact, its closest parallel is more “trainspotting, ” though entirely void of that movie’s verbal and visual invention. where “trainspotting” was a drug - fueled cry against the conformity of ’80s thatcherism, “factory” is a violence - fueled yelp against the vacuousness of ’90s blairism .
it' s a quite daunting sort of thing to do because the book has sold nearly 300, 000 copies and is very well loved, very passionate book for the football terrace male culture. it' s the first real book of its kind. the first thing i thought was keep the elements of the book so it feels like the book but absolutely do my own thing. so why did you cast danny dyer and tamer hassan in the film ?
nick: yeah, film is a very difficult medium. as an auteur, looking at something and going' right this is the book and i' m going to make the film - now how am i going to do that?'
the 1930 ap advert shows that ilford size no. 20' selo' film cost 1 / - for 8 exposures .
the name fp4 first appeared as a plate emulsion (a name not used for roll & 35mm film until 1968) .
ron photographed the frigate hms mourne (k 261) blowing up after she was hit by a gnat torpedo from u - 767 on the 15 june 1944. he got his film from
an old school pal
, robert patience, who worked at the selo factory in brentwood. bob had previously been the tail gunner on a bombing raid over hamburg in 1943, part of operation gomorrah to destroy germany' s second largest city. their' plane was badly shot up and the entire crew invalided out. ron soon had a good business going, selling selo film to his shipmates, taking their photographs, developing the film and making prints .
the original rajar factory buildings, which retained the rajar name long after ilford acquired the premises, were mostly demolished in 2004 and the land sold to barratt homes for the construction of around 90 houses, some of which were occupied by march 2007. ilford retained its newer buildings at the rear of the site and they are still in use (2016). the imposing 1903 entrance building to the rajar factory has been retained and now serves as a village community facility. this building was preserved, renovated & presented to mobberley as part of an agreement with ilford in exchange for the parish council supporting ilford' s planning application for housing on the site
ilford launched its first colour film
d
10 asa. (and in 1956 type
f
for clear flashbulbs) this was (unusually) a non - substantive reversal film, as was kodachrome. to read a full account of ilford' s attempts over the following 20 years to move into the field of colour film photography, click here .
in fishwick' s 1st nov 1982 catalogue, 220 roll film is available in fp4 and hp5 versions (£2. 48 per roll compared to £1. 06 for a standard 120). in the same catalogue, only kodak' s tri - x film is listed as available in 220 roll film (£2. 39 a roll) .
a single 127 size roll film of selochrome panchromatic, still in the pre - 1965 colours. this film is dated for processing before july 1968, suggesting it was made around 1965, perhaps just before the new carton colours and sunburst symbol were unveiled .
xp1 chromogenic film processing kits (acutance enhancing formula) finally discontinued following the success of xp2 plus with its full c41 compatibility .
ciba ag, switzerland, approach ilford with a buy - out offer. the ciba group comprised ciba ag, ciba photochemie ag (formerly tellko ag, research laboratory near fribourg) a manufacturer of sensitised photographic materials, lumière sa france (near lyons, acquired by ciba in 1962) also a manufacturer of sensitised materials & of colour film, and gretag gmbh (germany) a designer and constructor of equipment and instruments for use in the photographic industry. a lumière cilcolor 36 exposure 35mm film, 80asa, expiry date march 1979, colour negative film, is shown alongside. michael talbert comments
this was apparently distributed by lumière, france, in the late 1970s to early 1980s. its a c - 41 process film, so likely to have been around since 1976; it is listed in the 1977 b. j. annual. its also in the 1983 b. j. annual but its not in the 1985 annual. the film is actually a japanese made sakuracolor ii film. the package is reminiscent of ilford i. e. a white carton, black lettering, much like an fp4 black and white film carton. when ilford put ilfocolor 100 film on the market, about 1982 - 3, it was the same sakuracolor ii film. ilfocolor hr100 was an improved version in 1984, again sakuracolor ii film or possibly konica sr 100 film by then
.
an interesting article on the exposure latitude of selo film, where the film was subjected to exposures of the same sunny outdoors subject over an exposure range of 3, 000: 1, and claiming all negatives gave acceptable prints. from ten times under - exposed to 300 times over - exposed. such latuitude was claimed to be good for film sales as snapshot success was virtually guaranteed .
so the film' s asking questions about whether tommy should change his life. it isn' t judging him for his choices particularly. in fact it rather paints him and a chosen few in a good light by showing the real bad guys to be racists, and he rejecting this. the football factory takes pains over its anti - racist stance. it would be more persuasive if it had any ethnic minority characters who weren' t drug dealers or mute victims of discrimination, but the intent is commendable. there is no real need for it to judge its characters, though; it isn' t a morality tale and shouldn' t be expected as one .
testosterone and football combine to paint a violent portrait of middle - class england in director nick love' s adrenaline - charged adaptation of john king' s popular novel. tommy is your typical twenty - something soccer fan; bored with life, in love with lager, and always looking for a little action from the ladies. of course there' s the fighting, too. when tommy exchanges blows with a rival football fan and the situation quickly spins out of control, the thuggish sports fanatic is prompted to reconsider his brutal lifestyle and make a change for the better .
in the meantime, feel free to flick over to page 2, where we' ve been collecting everything we know about the film to date .
the selochrome pan roll film illustrated is a size 620, 160asa, with an expiry date of april 1971, from or near the last batch .
paul says
i am particularly pleased with the photo of the ilfocolor prints being checked at the basildon colour laboratories. what a shame there are no pictures of the (automatic) printers. one little scrap in the article is the mention of the british xylonite (bx) factory at manningtree which, despite the magazine being about essex, is actually in brantham, which is just across the river stour in suffolk. you mention the margaret thatcher connection with this factory (see 1946, above). my late mother - in - law worked for bx at brantham in the laboratories when she first left school, before ww2, but had left long before mrs thatcher ever worked there .
august 1967 (h67), after the introduction of ilfobrom (see entry above), the 16 page a5 booklet
ilford hp4 in action
, was made available, with considerable detail about the use, developing and printing of hp4 35mm, roll film and flat film .
from the start of 1969 (as announced november 1968 - see ap magazine, 20th nov, news of the week), ilford ceased applying their name to amateur colour films. ilford ltd changed their policy to only supplying colour films to distributors and organisations able to market the material under their own private label. at this time, 25% of ilford' s colour film output was going to the usa. ilford intended to continue with colour film r & d but decided on this new marketing policy as their colour film had not returned a healthy profit during the previous 20years (1948 launch of ilford' s first colour film, colour film d) .
xp2 (c41 process) film updated late summer 1996. made more easily compatible with multigrade iv paper, the iso 400 film had more contrast but was intended to give lower contrast with over - exposed negatives and more printing latitude. sharpnes is better. price remained as for the original xp2 (released 1991) and was available in the same formats, being 35mm, 120 and sheet film .
delta 100 film improved and suffixed professional, supersedes the previous emulsion with claimed all - round improved quality, especially in terms of shadow detail and latitude. availalble in 35mm (24 & 36exp), 120 roll film and all standard sheet sizes .
i don' t know if it is unique to britain, i mean have you seen city of god ?
said love of the brazilian film about murderous gang warfare, which featured the real inhabitants of rio' s favelas .
that' s a film about eight - year - olds shooting each other. you make a film about the underbelly of english male culture and everyone condemns you for glorifying violence. because a film on the same subject is made in brazil, they say it' s a masterpiece .
dates from a time when size 20 ie 120 film, cost 1 / - per roll, probably early 1930s .
roll film h. p. 2 and f. p. 2 were introduced in 1939, see entry below .
fp4 plates had a pre - 1960 speed rating of 80asa (at this time, fp3 film was 64asa) .
a young british soccer hooligan faces his personal damascene moment in “the football factory, ” a wannabe hard - hitting drama about blighty’s best - known export that’s as pointless as the social disease it purports to examine. made bearable by a blackly humorous streak and a couple of good performances, this cuss - filled slice of english self - loathing will appeal to a certain stratum of young male viewer but has little else going for it, either as cinema or drama, to score many goals with broader auds. pic went out locally may 14.
the football factory is a 2004 british sports drama film written and directed by nick love . the film stars danny dyer , tamer hassan , frank harper , roland manookian , neil maskell and dudley sutton . the film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by john king and the first foray into film making by video game producers rockstar games , credited as executive producers . the film was released in the united kingdom on 14 may 2004 . in 2004 , chelsea f.c. football supporters ' fanzine cfcuk produced a special edition - " cfcuk - the football factory " to coincide with the release of the film . 
the football factory is a 2004 british sports drama film written and directed by nick love. the film stars danny dyer, tamer hassan, frank harper, roland manookian, neil maskell and dudley sutton. the film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by john king and the first foray into film making by video game producers rockstar games, credited as executive producers. the film was released in the united kingdom on 14 may 2004. in 2004, chelsea f.c. football supporters' fanzine cfcuk produced a special edition - " cfcuk - the football factory " to coincide with the release of the film.
the football factory is a 2004 british sports drama film written and directed by nick love. the film stars danny dyer, tamer hassan, frank harper, roland manookian, neil maskell and dudley sutton. the film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by john king and the first foray into film making by video game producers rockstar games, credited as executive producers. the film was released in the united kingdom on 14 may 2004. in 2004, chelsea f.c. football supporters' fanzine cfcuk produced a special edition - " cfcuk - the football factory " to coincide with the release of the film.