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Eade Road, Harringay, N.4 - I Vinti (Michelangelo Antonioni 1953)

18/1/2014

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The protagonist of the London episode in Antonioni's sketch-film makes a phone call from a kiosk on Eade Road in Harringay:
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He is found there by the police and they drive off with him towards Green Lanes:
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This street has on the one side the New River canal and on the other several industrial buildings. We can see on the chimney the name Courtney Pope, electrical fitters who still have premises on Eade Road:
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 Eade Road is not far from the location of an earlier post (see here):
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More so than in his later visits for Blowup (see here) and The Passenger (see here), Antonioni explored varied and distant parts of London in this film. The impulse to cover territory may explain why, for a sequence at a greyhound track, he didn't take advantage of the nearby Harringay Stadium, just to the north of Eade Road, but headed north-east to the track at Walthamstow: 
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The Eade Road sequence must be this obscure location's only appearance on screen. I still find it hard to imagine Antonioni and crew here: 
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Though I also find it hard to imagine them here, south of London, at the junction of Carshalton Road and Sutton High Street:
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