FEATHER YOUR NEST DVD RELEASE
Big news for all lovers of George Formby films is that on August
25th 2014, the final piece of the Formby film jigsaw will be put in
place. I refer to the one film that has never before being
released on video or DVD and has never had a showing on
television.
Feather Your Nest
Feather Your Nest is the film in question and whilst we do have
a copy of this film in our DVD archive, it is of very inferior
quality. So with this latest release, all the Formby films will now
be available on DVD.
Unseen since its original theatrical release
Unseen since its original theatrical release, it stars George as a
gramophone record factory worker and includes three songs,
When We Feather Our Nest,
I'm As Happy As A Sandboy and Leaning On A Lampost.
Clean Quality
I have looked at a clip of the Leaning On A Lampost song from
the film and the quality looks very clean. Network is the
company behind the release and the film will be part of a four-
film double-DVD, which is part of “The British Film Collection”
series
The DVDs are available as part of Network's Ealing Studios
Rarities Collection Volume 14
DVD Review
Having progressed in the early 1990's from watching very
inferior copies of video tapes to having all but one of the
Formby films on DVD, it is a real treat to see the final piece in
the jigsaw i.e. "Feather Your Nest" now sitting in its rightful place
alongside all the other DVD releases. "Feather Your Nest" is a
delight, I never thought it would be released in the digital format
but Network are to thank for this totally unexpected treat.
The first thing you would want with a DVD is that the picture
quality should be good - and yes, although this film was
released in 1937, the quality is as good as any of the others and
better than quite a lot. That might just be because I have been
used to watching a 4th generation video copy for all these years
- but I have to say that it is delightful to sit and watch this film -
and because of the far superior quality, you start to appreciate
that this is one of Formby's better films with a good story and
interesting scenes throughout.
Even though I am severely hard of hearing, I could hear the
dialogue without my usual headphones, albeit I was listening
through a Bose mini-sound link speaker.
So in conclusion, I can confidently say that anyone purchasing
this film (there are also three other British rarities in the set) will
be delighted, Formby fans might never watch the other three
films but the fact that you can now buy a pristine copy of
"Feather Your Nest" is worth the cost of the set alone - a
significant release in George Formby's DVD collection.
Peter Pollard