Down Our Street [Unseen]

An unseen film. The Era reported, 20 April 1932, that ‘Exteriors in “Down Our Street” will include scenes in Petticoat-lane, which is designated in street directories by the less picturesque title of  Middlesex-street. Harry Lachman plans to film this market and its corded stalls without the teeming East-end crowd being aware that they are being overlooked by the camera’s eye. How he hopes to get compositional grouping and artistic selectivity I do not know, but doubless the artist-director knows what he is doing. The property department at Paramount British Productions have constructed an enclosed push cart of the type in general use in Petticoat-lane,  and it is proposed to send this through the market under the pilotage of a property man disguised as a street vendor. The outside of this vehicle is decorated with glowing tributes to the efficiency of Kelly’s Cough Drops. Inside the cart will be a film camera and one of the studio camera men.’ Following such an elaborate plan it’s presumed that this market filming actually took place.