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Reel World
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Four Frames
Stand By Me
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On Location
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A Roundup of this Issue's Featured Films
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Issue Sixteen. September/October 2011
Features
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Spotlight
Growing Pains: Cinema of Adolescence
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Art & Film
Mr. Strong: The Bright and Brilliant Poster Art of Tom Whalen
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1000 Words
Absolute Beginner:  John Hughes and the Films of American Youth In Transition
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beyond their tender years, culminating in the famous '
daddy, my daddy
' tear-jerking climactic family reunion.
The Railway Children
's gentle view of childhood has an enduring place in the hearts of those who have read or seen it, with its evocative name now used in the real world for a vital and ongoing concern, that of combating child homelessness. Founded in 1995 by David Maidment, former Controller of Safety Policy for British Rail, the Railway Children charity, whose mantra is '
 getting to street kids before the street  gets to them
', has 117 projects set up in the UK, Africa and Asia and last year helped over 25,000 street children. With the latest theatrical production of Nesbit's classic supporting the charity and with 24 partner organisations working in conjunction with Railway Children, the plight of the most vulnerable members of society will not go unnoticed.
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The Railway Children 
's gentle view of childhood has an enduring place in the hearts of those who have read or seen it.
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, an iconic 1970s children's novel has inspired more than just film and theatre productions.
NEIL MITCHELL
  jumps aboard to follow its trail of influence.
EDITH NESBIT'S PERENNIALLY
popular children's novel
The Railway Children
 has in recent years been successfully transferred to the stage, a production that follows in the footsteps of several small screen versions and Lionel Jeffries' iconic 1970 film adaptation. Jeffries' unashamedly sentimental and nostalgic take on Nesbit's book sees the Waterbury family relocate from London to a small village and learn to live in relative penury after the father of the family, a foreign office employee, is wrongly incarcerated for selling state secrets to the Russians. The children of the title, Roberta, Phyllis and Peter, immortalised in Jeffries' film by Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren, experience a series of events all connected to the nearby railway line that requires them to show wisdom, courage and understanding
FILM BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE SCREEN
REEL WORLD
LEFT LIONEL JEFFRIES' CLASSIC 1970 FILM / ABOVE LONDON'S THEATRICAL VERSION IS STAGED AT THE FORMER EUROSTAR TERMINAL WHICH FEATURES THE STIRLING SINGLE, A 60 TONNE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
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