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2011-10-10 HBFS show Jour de Fete
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The next Hackney Bicycle Film Society Show will be on Monday October 10th will be Jour de Fete
Postman François often the centre of attention in the town, which is not always a good thing. He tries to be helpful but most in town mock him behind his back. At the Bastille Day festivities in the town, he and the rest of the townsfolk view a movie on the efficiencies of the U.S. Postal Service. François is dismayed at how backward he sees the French Postal Service, he only having a bicycle as transport for his postal route. It is even a major process for his company to get him a replacement bicycle tire. François is obsessed with speeding up the delivery of at least the service on his route - doing it as well or even better than the Americans - with only his bicycle, his ingenuity and advice from the townsfolk to do so. His only goal is speed, this goal at any cost. As he implements his ideas, the townsfolk remark on how François is doing it "the American way".
Show starts at 7:30 e-mail hbfs2011@gmail.com if you want to become a member and attend
Graeme Obree
For those who missed Graeme Obree's talk at the at the Engineering Club at the Building Centre there is a recording of it at Cycling Night on Vimeo
Next Month
Our November show will be on 14th November and will be the Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels which will be proceeded by a talk by Adam on the use of the Bicycle in the Vietnam War
In conjunction with the London Branch of the Veteran Cycling Club on the 15th November we will be presenting Matt Wilkinson' talk on frame building again at Look Mum No Hands