The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971)

Directors

Philip Trevelyan

The story

The film documents the eccentric lives of the Page family, consisting of the elderly Mr Page and his adult children Jim, Pete, Nancy and Kath, who live in a wood in Swanbrook, near Chiddingly, Sussex without main gas, electricity or running water. The sons find employment by fixing mechanical things as odd jobs and maintain two traction engines. The film comprises interviews with the Page family, interspersed with footage of them going about their lives in the forest.

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