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There's something indescribable about the stuff we watch as children, then watch again as adults. The CBS Children's Film Festival from 1967 showed two movies that made quite an impact on me at age 10.



I've alrady posted "Skinny and Fatty", the 1959 movie from Japan. If you like I can repost it along with the other film I've never forgotten:



"Hand in Hand" - 1960



This movie concerns the friendship between a Catholic boy and a Jewish girl. He thinks his friend drowned in the river when she fell off their raft so the movie is told in flashback style.







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It has taken me some time to identify the Rolls Royce that appeared in the movie. At the time that "Hand in Hand" was filmed, all Rolls Royce automobiles were custom built "one-offs". No two cars were alike, even if the same body was selected from the same coachbuilder.



The photo above is the 1955 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith Empress Tourine Limousine, by Hooper & Co. of Westminster, London. 



Hooper & Co, was the "Royal Coachmaker", their constructions usually reserved for the Diamler Motorcar of  the British Monarchy. However, the "Empress" bodystyle was so popular that Hooper & Co. would custome build bodies for other makes of fine cars, like Rolls Royce.



The Silver Wraith Empress Tourine Limousine that appears in the moive is an unbelievevably expensive automobile and very formal in appearance. 


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