Young Steve’s life was full of fun, sun and hope for the future – then he and his family moved to Margate.
The Maynards of Margate takes the reader back to the halcyon days of the 50s and 60s, when the lower classes knew their place, and schoolchildren were educated by former inmates of Colditz.
Steve spent his childhood dodging rabid packs of mods and rockers, sadistic teachers, school bullies, poverty, killer trampolines, and a dad who may have been solely responsible for the decline of the British Empire.
Moving in and out of care homes, Steve faced a childhood of chaos and neglect until he found solace in the movies and music of a golden age in the dreamland of Margate.
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Appendix C – Research Materials
These are some of the title pages from the John Ford / Harry Carey Universal titles as adapted for the Boys’ Cinemacomics, published between 1919 and 1921. All of the films below are presumed lost, apart from The Judgement of the Desert, an alternative title for Hell Bent (1918). These two images are from Harry Carey Junior’s private archive…
Appendix B – Harry Carey Jr. Interview Transcript
This is a transcript of an interview conducted with Harry Carey Jr., at his home in Santa Barbara in October of 2007. The transcript has been edited to include only those comments relating to his father’s partnership with John Ford. SM: How many films did Harry Carey Senior make with Ford? HC: They made 26…
Appendix A – Film Sources
This section details the sources for the twenty-three silent John Ford films that form the basis for the main text of the thesis. Those films for which there is no official outlet for release are labelled as being supplied by a Private Collector. The list also includes two early Francis Ford films at the beginning,…
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