https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b665e728-9f77-4925-8d25-f4aedda63d7d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Presented by Ford of Britain, “Every Day Except Christmas” (1957) is a black-and-white documentary drama directed by Lindsay Anderson documenting the hustle and bustle of Covent Garden Market and the fruit and vegetable porters and vendors that work there. For over 300 years, Covent Garden Market was London's premier flower, fruit and vegetable market. Today, while there are no longer stalls selling fresh produce and flowers, the area remains a popular commercial center and tourist destination in central London. Film opens, certification from British Board of Film Censors (f. 1912, today British Board of Film Classification) (0:07). Montage scenes of farmhands gathering and preparing produce to be transported to market: Lettuce, roses, mushrooms (0:11). 1950s Fordson Thames truck picks up produce from farm in Sussex (0:59). Truck driving at night through country towns and small cities on way to London; British National Anthem “God Save the Queen” plays on radio (2:41). Workers begin arriving in early morning hours at Covent Garden, whistling and other noises punctuate the background as workers set up their produce stands (4:09). Some workers help unload boxes of cut daffodils from Jersey Islands, other flowers from France and rest of England (5:27). Bill, a night man at one of the flower stands, helps unload trolley that transports flowers from the truck unloading station to the stand inside the market area (6:04). Camaraderie among vendors, police who sit together for cup of tea while market stalls come to life (7:16). 1950s Fordson Thames truck from earlier arrives at Covent Garden from Sussex with delivery of mushrooms, roses, and lettuce; Packages carefully unloaded onto trolley and stacked in market area before being set out for sale (7:51). One man whistles a patriotic tune, others sort boxes with cigarettes dangling from their month; Frenetic energy of market in early hours of day (10:26). Close-up shots of different flower varieties being delicately revealed in crates behind tissue paper layer: Tulips, carnations (12:53). Stalls are set up, market ready to go at around 4:30 AM; Night men wait for final deliveries and arrival of vendors (14:50). Night men finish shifts and go to “Albert’s” a local café; Café filled with other porters, workers who socialize over coffee and simple breakfast sandwiches (16:00). Somber music plays as camera pans flower displays in market before the business day commences (19:48). View along Bedford street, facade of St. Paul’s Church (21:02). Daytime brings more hustle and bustle, traffic of new lorries delivering more goods for market from local farms in Kent etc; Produce consists of cabbage, potatoes (21:29). BBC Home Service radio program plays in background, shot of Covent Garden Underground sign (22:20). Interior shots of Covent Garden marketplace; Buyer looking for produce to supply high-end shop in the West End (22:46). Previously quiet and empty flower market filled with buyers; Vendors hurriedly tend to customers (23:36). Older woman, Alice, the only remaining female porter in the marketplace, balances a few crates of fresh flowers on her head as she walks briskly before helping to load them into delivery vehicle (25:40). Street traders load their trolleys, navigate tight turns and foot traffic of the marketplace (26:11). Men carry boxes of goods to waiting vans (27:34). Porter bravely weaves through oncoming traffic of vehicles, double-decker buses (perhaps 1950 AEC RT double decker) (28:30). Local cafe busy with patrons who had been shopping at market, cups of coffee and small sausage sandwiches (28:40). Morning rush over 10:30 AM, some porters, Alice seen resting (29:25). Later in day old ladies come to take advantage of cheaper prices, buy flowers to sell in the London streets (30:47). 11 AM the market quiet, only rubbish and imperfect produce left; Street band plays "Happy Wanderers" while lorries loaded with goods for out of town and others unloaded with produce for next day’s market (32:30). Lorries set out on road, montage doors of lorries with names of different farms, faces of porters and vendors etc. (34:27). End (36:44). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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