A series of picture postcard versions of "Old England" are what we get glimpses of in this brief tour of England in grainy looking color. The countryside vistas are pretty enough but the documentary is slow and lacking energy from beginning to end.
It begins with a miniature illustrating the stone architecture of certain regions, the fact that it's a miniature disguised until we see a girl walking among the cottages and gardens looking like a tall Alice in Wonderland.
Then we switch to the real thing, scenes of stone walls, cottages with gabled roofs, some of the buildings built between 1580 and the late 1600s and some pretty country gardens surrounding the old homes.
Glimpses of scenery beside the Y river are next, the shell of a castle built in the 13th Century, and church ruins from one built in 1287 still stand as a sort of tourist attraction.
Suddenly the brief tour is over and another dull FitzPatrick documentary has come to an end with a thud.
It begins with a miniature illustrating the stone architecture of certain regions, the fact that it's a miniature disguised until we see a girl walking among the cottages and gardens looking like a tall Alice in Wonderland.
Then we switch to the real thing, scenes of stone walls, cottages with gabled roofs, some of the buildings built between 1580 and the late 1600s and some pretty country gardens surrounding the old homes.
Glimpses of scenery beside the Y river are next, the shell of a castle built in the 13th Century, and church ruins from one built in 1287 still stand as a sort of tourist attraction.
Suddenly the brief tour is over and another dull FitzPatrick documentary has come to an end with a thud.