Every Day Except Christmas (1957)

Directed by

Lindsay Anderson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

41 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It is a 37 minute documentary about a day at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market in 1950s London. It shows the market workers and their trades from early morning to closing time.

observationalearthyrhythmicnostalgicworkadaywarmquietly intimate

What happens

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, which at that point was still located in central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look at Britain" series. It was filmed by Walter Lassally. Every Day and other short, mostly documentary films made within two or three years, reflected the concept of Free Cinema, films which were "free" in the sense that they were made outside the traditional structure of filmmaking. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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