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Watch: Seven Up! 1964 123movies, Full Movie Online – A group of seven-year-old British children from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. Director Michael Apted plans to reinterview them at seven-year intervals to determine how their lives and attitudes have changed..
Plot: A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. Director Michael Apted plans to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to determine how their lives and attitudes have changed.
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Groundbreaking ongoing one of a kind documentary about life as it happens
In 1964 Michael Apted filmed a documentary on a couple of seven year olds for a British television studio from various backgrounds. The idea was to see what the generation heading into the next millennium looked like at that early age, what their hopes were, their dreams, their aspirations. It was an interesting snap-shot for sure back in these days, but then again, who knew what would really become of those kids? Well, someone clever got the idea to revisit them at age 14 – and thus made another documentary. Seven years later they did it again, and more and more things began to shape and what at this time could be seen as an experiment became really extraordinarily interesting.

So it went on, a documentary on the lives of people like you and me. Today, a couple of dozen years later, we’ve got several more installments and have gained insight on what has really become of those children of the sixties. The series as a whole is simply the most outstanding and longest running reality documentary ever filmed, it’s all about life as close as it can get, and due to its unique circumstances the feat is impossible to copy. There are twists and turns in the lives that we are allowed to follow, sometimes of course also influenced by the fact that they are shown on screen, in a positive or a negative way. However, in general we get a good portion of real life experience handed out via the Seven Up! series in a way we never would be able to experience otherwise, apart from our own lives. Groundbreaking indeed, must see. Should be compulsory viewing for anyone in the process of growing up…

Additional notes: The Seven Up! series has sparked various imitators all over the world, ranging from similar approaches made in the USSR, Germany, Australia and South Africa, thus honoring the original. All these attempts put together provide a kaleidoscope of developing lives around the planet in different times and places. They have their own merits, but owe much to Apted’s pioneering spirit. Even Robert Linklater’s “Boyhood” (2014), where a young actor is being followed playing a fictional character over twelve years while he’s growing up, apparently was heavily inspired by the “Seven Up!” series. Linklater’s hybrid film that tries to merge fiction and documentary however ultimately falls somewhat flat, as it is neither the one nor the other. Better stick with the real thing, and it all started here.

This first one is great but comes with a strong warning…
While I found this first documentary of the “Seven Up!” series highly compelling, and think it’s worth watching, I have to sound a grave warning for anyone who, like me, intended to start here and watch the entire series.

Yes, this first one is great. I enjoyed how it was shot, how it was produced, I enjoyed the children and funny things they said, I liked the artfulness of it and the 1960’s style of it. It made me eager for a follow up, and “7 Plus Seven” was also enjoyable, to see the dramatic changes in the teenage years, and then “21 Up” was interesting as well. But each subsequent documentary contains huge portions of the previous ones, and this quickly becomes a giant bore, particularly when you are not watching them seven years apart. Also I found the people became less interesting over time. They are just normal, mundane people, after all, and yet the documentaries about them just got longer and longer, clocking in at 2 hours or more, when the first one is a snappy 39 minutes. It started to seem like really bad reality TV. And all the artfulness of that first one seemed to be totally drained out over time. I had to stop watching and could not continue.

The really magnificent documentary might be the final one, when all these people have passed on and some kind of grand retrospective of their lives can take place that attempts to draw some conclusions about this grand experiment. So give it a shot if you like, but it was too much for me.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 40 min
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Documentary, Short, Biography
Director Paul Almond
Writer N/A
Actors Douglas Keay, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera Arriflex 16 ST
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm