Up Series

The Up Series is a series of documentaries by British filmmaker Michael Apted which follows the lives of fourteen children from 1964 and does report there every seven years.



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[hide] *Design 1  ==Design[ Edit] == It was initially not intended that there would be multiple documentaries. The first documentary Seven Up! was intended as an episode in the series World in Action by Granada Television. Director Paul Almond wanted to provide a picture of the British class society. His assistant Michael Apted to do together Gordon McDougall selected fourteen children aged seven years old. The children were from different social classes and had to a representative of the British social classes.
 * 2 The children
 * the format 3
 * Impact 4
 * 5 the participants over the years
 * Andrew 5.1
 * 5.2 Bruce
 * 5.3 Charles
 * 5.4 Jackie
 * John 5.5
 * 5.6 Lynn
 * 5.7 Neil
 * Nick 5.8
 * Paul 5.9
 * Peter 5.10
 * 5.11 Sue
 * 5.12 Suzy
 * 5.13 Symon
 * Tony 5.14
 * 6 the documentaries
 * 7 The imitators
 * 8 scientific research

The theme of the documentary was: Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man, the motto of the Jesuits and submitted by Francis Xavier. According to this motto is a child already formed at the age of seven and later not much will have changed. Seven Up had to show a glimpse of the future, the manager and the shop girl of the year 2000. The documentary was made in 1963, when the children were born, seven years in 1956 and broadcast in 1964.

Originally was intended to show that there are few opportunities in England to come in to a different social class. So children know on a public school (exclusive private school) all that they ever in the University of Oxford or Cambridge and then get good jobs through their networks, while the representatives of the lower classes will be much less successful. Over the years, could indeed be drawn the conclusion that this image knocked.Virtually everyone kept hanging in his social class. ==The children[ Edit] == The fourteen selected children were: Bruce Balden, Jackie Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby, Peter Davies, Susan Davis, Charles Furneaux, Nicholas Hitchon, Neil Hughes, Lynn Johnson, Paul Kligerman, Suzanne Lusk and Tony Walker. There was tried to give a cross section of the English class society. So were Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby and Charles Furnaux and Suzanne Lusk submitted by a British Public School, a private school where only the upper class are sent to children. Jackie Bassett, Susan Davis, Lynn Johnson and Tony Walker came from the working class neighbourhood Eastend in London, Paul Kligerman Symon Basterfield and sat in a children's home in London, Nicholas Hitchon was the son of a farmer from Yorkshire, while Peter Davis and Neil Hughes came from the middle class in Liverpool. The only immigrant was Symon Basterfield. Later, Apted admitted that him was asked to extremes and that there might be a better selection have been possible. In 1963, however, was still not considered a sequel to the series.One of the things that Apted regrets is that he no longer has included girls. ==The format[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the success of Seven Up, Apted decided that he would retrieve the same children every seven years from now for the camera and showing the same themes would broach. However, none of the children had signed a contract for a long-term cooperation and for that reason the contributions would be voluntary. Though Apted pays the participants an undisclosed amount for their participation. The process is at every documentary after Seven Up about the same. Apted films each participant about two days, the interviews last about six hours. Then assembles Apted the documentary with a length of around 130 minutes. The interviews are interspersed with images of participants in their current post, at their family and on trips. Additionally, Apted getting material from earlier documentaries to see the development of the participants. Most participants are filmed separately, but true to the first episode, Jackie and Lynn ever Sue Apted also films as a trio. Also Charles, John and Andrew are still performed as a trio, even after dropping off by Charles at the time of 28UP. The duo-interviews with Neil and Peter, however, fell off, after dropping off by Peter Davies. Every seven years, Apted becoming more or less the same questions. He informs to relationships, work progress, but also in the opinion of the participants about the class system in England. The format is not changed significantly over the years. ==Impact<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The participants actually part of a kind of reality show and they give every seven years a significant portion of their private life exposed to the viewers. The huge success of the UP-series has the participants to known British made. They are recognized in restaurants and shops and get letters from viewers. In particular, Neil is very popular. At the time of 28UP was Neil homeless and roamed the country. He looked very depressed, but also did some philosophical statements. He was promptly approached by dozens of viewers with their own problems in the hope that Neil could formulate a solution. Was negative impact the lives of Peter Davies. In 28UP he did a few critical remarks made about the then Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher. The British tabloids that lost his job and then pursued Davies about his marriage saw beaches. A number of participants got regret their participation in the series. Charles stepped after 21UP from the series. He was furious when Apted still a recent photo of him in the sequel documentaries showed up and continued broadcasting images of previous documentaries. He himself considered Apted to court. Peter Davies refused his participation after 28UP when he as a result of his interview in that episode, lost his job. John also did day and as well as he cursed the time when Andrew his then school principal gave them for SevenUP. Symon also did not participate because he was working with 35UP to separate. The three girls from East End, Lynn, Jackie and Sue go even during the interviews in discussion with Apted about the usefulness of the series. Also the partners are not always happy with the impact. The wife of Nick for example refused to in to be filmed and interviewed by Apted 35Up yet because they considered them in the editing was brought into the picture in a wrong way, after which they got angry responses. ==The participants over the years<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Andrew<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the time of pre-preparatoryschool Andrew on a so-called SevenUp is in Kensington near London. Together with John and Charles he represents the upper class. Andrew already know exactly that he will go to the correct boarding school, and then to Trinity Hall to study law. At the age of seven he is, in his own words, ' a bit annoying, spoiled little boy ', he says to read the Financial Times for its shares to be able to follow. Change Later on Andrew strong, he is much less pronounced and is affable and friendly about it. He studied in Cambridge and rights is indeed a sollicitor (lawyer at a lower court). Later he is a company lawyer at a large British company. He marries and gets kids. Unlike John and Charles is he in to see all documentaries. ===Bruce<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many of the participants see their ideals over the years vanished in the everyday reality. But not Bruce, all at the age of seven, he wants to be missionary in Africa. This is also prompted by his father serving in the military in the then Rhodesia resides. Bruce sits on St. Pauls, a chic boarding school. Later he studied mathematics at Oxford and then for an insurance company to go to work. However, he feels responsible for the society that specify his job and math teacher is in the East End. He's going to live in a cheap apartment and sees off of luxury. When he met his future wife (between 35Up and 42 Up) he returns to the luxury and is a teacher at St. Albans in Hertfordshire. He is now the father of two sons. ===Charles<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the time of Charles on a so-called pre-preparatoryschool SevenUp in Kensington near London. Together with John and Andrew he represents the upper class. While Andrew and John follow more or less the path mapped out for them, Charles takes another direction. He goes though the Marlborough Boarding School, but not to Oxford. He studied history at the University of Durham and then journalist and later a producer for the BBC. He is only seen in SevenUp, 14Up and 21Up. Now let see his picture in the list always Apted documentaries and he dives in the archival footage. ===Jackie<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jackie is in the documentaries to see with Sue and Lynn. She is from East End, a working class neighbourhood in London. She visits a kind of home school and is on her nineteenth married. After her divorce she remains alone and is a single mother after a short-lived affair. Then she gets two more children of one father (Ian). She has all kinds of jobs and is eventually rejected, after which they get a benefit. She lives in Scotland. ===John<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the time of John on a so-called pre-preparatoryschool SevenUp is in Kensington near London. Along with Andrew and Charles he represents the upper class. John already know exactly that he will go to the correct boarding school, and then to Trinity Hall to study law. At the age of seven he is already very conservative and that changes not in subsequent years. At the age of fourteen he would like to in politics and he already has plans to to address strikers. He studied law at Oxford and is a barrister (lawyer/staff lawyer at higher courts). Later he marries the daughter of the Ambassador of Bulgaria. He takes no part in 28Up, but is there in 1991 at 35Up back. The reason for this is that he wants to ask attention for the poverty problems in Bulgaria, where he still has old family ties. ===Lynn<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lynn is to see in the documentaries with Sue and Jackie. She is from East End, a working class neighbourhood in London. She is visiting a grammar school and going to work at the library in the East End. Lynn remains in the library panel, marries Russ on her nineteenth and gets two children. In later life, one finds an abnormality in the arteries in her brain. In 56 Up she is still married to Les. In that episode she explains that she is now fired at the library. ===Neil<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the age of seven is Neil still a Merry twink, he walks to hopping around and seems very happy. At 21, Neil has the University left; He lives in a squat and works in construction as uneducated worker; He also appears to have psychological problems. On his 28th is Neil still homeless and wanders through England. He claims that he always has had high expectations of themselves and that his own ambitions (go to Oxford to study) couldn't live up to. As Neil 35 is still a benefit, he lives, but he has a rental cottage and he directs a local theatre group on the Shetland Islands. On his 42nd he is back in London and active as a Liberal Democrat in Hackney. On his 49th is he chosen as District Councillor in Cumbria in North-West England. Despite its recovery remains Neil gloomy. He deserves after all these years still little and has no lasting relationship. ===Nick<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the socially most successful participant is Nick. If 49Up is broadcast is he professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He comes from a farm in Arncliff in the Yorkshire Dales, where he was the only boy of his age in the village was. In Oxford he studied physics and after graduation moved to the us. There, he started working as a physicist at projects to use nuclear energy as a power source.He got married, but the marriage ended in divorce by the time 49Up was broadcast. He is now remarried. ===Paul<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Paul sat in a children's home at the age of seven. His parents are separated. Not long after he moved to Australia with his father and stepmother. He has little expectations of life and at the age of seven not know what the word ' University ' means. A given that Apted keeps repeating by the documentaries. In Australia he is Mason and soon junior partner in a contractors company. He gets married, gets kids and becomes an independent subcontractor. Meanwhile he grandfather and together with his wife he has control of an abode of ancient of days. He works there as handyman. ===Peter<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Peter comes from Liverpool. He is an apprentice to a master In SevenUp school in a suburb in Liverpool. He wants to be an astronaut. Later he goes to the University and is studying little excited history. If 28Up is broadcast is a teacher and married. In the documentary he makes a few critical remarks about Thatcher. Not long after he becomes the victim of a campaign by the British tabloid because of those comments. He loses his job and later also his marriage ends in divorce. He refuses any longer to join the Up series. He is officer and works in the civil service where he met his second wife In 56Up he returns unexpectedly back in the program to his band The Good Intentions to promote. He denies that he is fired as a teacher in 56 Up and States that he himself wanted to stop. ===Sue<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sue is to see in the documentaries with Lynn and Jackie. She comes from a working class neighbourhood in London. She visits a kind of home school and later working in an administrative position. She says her job as she is getting married and gets pregnant. Later, they secrete. She gets again work at the administration of the University. For the University put them a post-doctoral program on that by now is led by her. Later, they again live together. Her children are now grown up. ===Suzy<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the seven years ' SevenUp we see Suzy as an only child of rich parents. She sits on boarding school and looks little lucky. Her parents divorced on her fourteenth. She leaves her rich father's early school and should travel a lot. After she marries 21Up lawyer Rupert Dewey and get three children. She wants to no job and is happy with her life. ===Symon<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Symon's mother is let down by his father even before he is born. He is staying in the same orphanage as Paul and complains at the age of 14 that the rich have it all and that he was not made a bicycle can afford. Lives with his mother and again In Leo 21Up he visits with Paul the abandoned building of the orphanage. At the time of 28Up he has a family with five children and he works as a forklift driver. Symon does not participate in 35Up because he then separate, but he is back and in 42Up he has a son with his current wife. They already had a daughter. On his 49th works Symon still like forklift operator, but then when another company; may call and he is now getting back to Paul foster father is attached to. ===Tony<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tony comes from the East End of London. A neighborhood that is less well known. At the age of seven wants to be very agile and energetic all the Tony jockey. Although he was only allowed to drive three races, he knows that ambition into reality. He is then taxi driver, marries and gets kids. He has a while a pub, takes acting classes and plays small roles in films and television series. Tony confesses that he has committed adultery in 42 Up, although it has brought his marriage at risk. Meanwhile he has several houses, including one in Spain. ==The documentaries<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="58" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Up series is formed by the following documentaries:

==The imitators<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In other countries, later also started experiments in which groups of children or adults were followed for a long time. In Netherlands and Belgium are that:
 * Seven Up! (may 5, 1964)
 * 7 Plus Seven (15 december, 1970)
 * 21 Up (9 may, 1977)
 * 28 Up (20-21 november, 1984)
 * 35 Up (22 may, 1991)
 * 42 Up (21 –22 July, 1998)
 * 49 Up (15 and 22 september, 2005)
 * 56 Up (14, 21 and 28 may, 2012)

<p lang="en" len="308" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The novel ' the children of Arthur ' by Kristien Hemmerechts is about a fictional Belgian variant of the English Up series. ==Scientific research<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the United Kingdom by the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) 5.362 persons from their birth in the first week of March 1946 lifelong scientifically examined, on medical (physically), psychological (lifestyle), sociological (class difference) and biological (aging) plane. In the Netherlands started in 2001 Rotterdam Generation R to which 10,000 research (forthcoming) mothers with their children participate. In 2012 in London the NSHD follows with a long-running investigation into Generation L under 90,000 babies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  In the United States are since 1921 part of The Longevity Project people from 10-year-old age followed for long-term scientific research.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]
 * Almost adult (1982) about a group of 17-18 year olds.
 * Nearly 30 (1994)
 * Almost 40 (2005)
 * Jaber, 1980 – 1990. Paul J 's two-part documentary about high school students in Kapellen, near Antwerp.
 * Generation 2010. Five children from the cradle to their adulthood followed.