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= The discreet charm of Scotland Yard (Melissa and The Blue Lamp)

I have always liked the opening sequence of "Melissa", a classic detective Rai of the years when the TV was in black and white, by Francis Durbridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ7pr-5QgN8

A Wolseley UK Police
(not the model you see in Melissa but it is equally old-fashioned)

I like the images of London, I like the sober Wolseley used by police in London. Recently I

found that the sequence obviously inspired by the opening scenes of a classic British film of 1950: The Blue Lamp, directed by Basil Dearden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_9Oagorb4


The Blue Lamp is a beautiful film, shot with an air of documentary, a great image to celebrate the operation efficiency of the London police. A film so apt to win the Bafta award (a sort of Oscars of the channel) and to inspire a television series which lasted about twenty years.
The Blue Lamp, in short, is the classic "police procedural". In Italy this film was released with an incongruous title - "The Blue Lamp" - that I know is TV only once in the past (I saw a kid and I remember that I liked).
The original title refers to the blue lantern that signaled a time of police stations in Great Britain.
Fun fact: reading the headlines of The Blue Lamp you come across in the name of Bernard Lee.
Many years later, this actor would be one of the most well known movie franchise of James Bond, as an interpreter (long course) of "M", the gruff head of 007.
ps: In 007, on this blog, I talked about here

http://giovannicapozzi.blogspot.com/2010/10/james-bond-and-beatles-these-are.html