I've blogged this still from some 1969 film footage before [British Pathe] but seeing as it's a long holiday weekend I thought I'd blog it again. You can buy this still from British Pathe, uncropped and without any watermark, for £20. Check here. The Spacex Superset looks simply awesome [wish I'd had one!]. What else can you see? This time round I've seen something else.
On the back window hangs one of my favourite books as a kid, the Finding Out Book of Battles. It has a sort of yellow cover picturing charging horses. I absolutely loved the artwork in this book and still do. I had no idea back then that it was by one Ron Embleton. I think I'd recognise his style anywhere just from thumbing though this book a gazillion times in my bedroom. Anyone else got a favourite book from childhood?
And if that's not enough British Pathe for you have a look at this 1964 footage of all manner of battery toys and dolls! Fascinating! http://www.britishpathe.com/video/1964-toys-on-show/query/london+toy+shop
What a wonderful picture...it certainly brings back the magical feelings of childhood for me.
ReplyDeleteI has the Spacex Superset and I loved it and played with it very often. Indeed, it was whilst searching on the net for information about it that I found this blog.
Sadly today, I only have one or two little remnants and a few "Golden Astronauts"...you got 6 with the set if I remember correctly.
One of my favourite items in the set was the section of lunar surface, it was all so wonderfully "Alien" and just a little scary! :)
I never had the Superset Ed. Must have been like a selection box, all those little toys set in that crinkly plastic tray inside the box! We really were the NASA generation weren't we .. oh, and HAMMER too! Yay! Monsters! and Space! Bliss!
DeleteOne of my favourite books was the 1970 daily mirror book of space, chock full of drawings and paintings of lunar rovers and rockets! I remember shop windows like that one and the sense of awe and wonder. What I wouldn't do to be 7 again....
ReplyDeleteHave we blogged the Daily Mirror book Wote?
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