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Since its first instalment in 1964, the celebrated Up documentary series has traced the fortunes of a group of British children from a variety of backgrounds and different areas of the UK.

The series now comprises 21 (1977), 28 Up (1984), 35 Up (1991), 42: forty two up (1998) and 49 Up (2005), which opened in U.S. theaters last month. The latest essay is now available on DVD from First Run Features, which boxed the first six programs as The Up Series.

The Up series has followed Jackie through marriage, divorce and childbirths. In 56 Up, she tells viewers about the family deaths she has endured--her sister, ex-husband, mother-in-law, stepmother and brother-in-law--as well as government cuts to her disability benefits for rheumatoid arthritis. Yet the birth of her first grandchild brings hope.

Back in 1964, Granada TV assembled 20 boys and girls from all walks of life for a series about growing up in the UK. Among the earliest scenes to be filmed were sequences of the seven-year-olds.

The Up series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television for ITV that follows the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when th.

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The first of the Up Series, Seven Up features interviews with a collection of British seven-year-olds in 1964. Representing a cross-section of Britain’s class and educational system, the.

But even the greatest undertakings often start small, and so the venerable Up series, a project that has to date encompassed eight features over nearly half a century, began with what was intended to be a one-off: 40-odd minutes of television devoted to “the struggling, changing world of the 7-year-old,” in the words of the paternal narrator.

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Michael Apted's 7-Up Series has been a landmark in the representation of ordinary lives on television. The series has followed the lives of 13 people, chosen from a variety of social backgrounds, from 7 to 56 years of age, with programmes made about them at seven year intervals. The most recent episode was broadcast in 2012.

About. In my English class this year my class watched the 7 Up Series started by Michael Apted and broadcasted in 1964. We were each required to begin a blog or journal that provides: insight, opinions, ideas, observations, reflections and responses to the series.

The Seven Up! linear narrative of social class determination loosened in subsequent films as contingency, variation, and the dynamics of gender, generation, and parenting came more fully into view. The films embed tensions between linear and contingent, open-ended forms of temporality, juxtaposing varied forms of time: subjective (with.