Nan's toys -- Felicity Movie

[Dolly6]

Somebody may have already mentioned this, but I haven't been on the board lately (too many papers -- aargh!), so I'll just say it.

In the Felicity movie - wasn't it cute that Nan was actually playing with the Felicity doll's blue tea cups and tea caddy when she was playing with her dolls (it was in that scene when she pinches the breeches)? I thought that was such a great touch!

I was kind of dissapointed that I didn't see a yellow carriage (on my christmas list!) however. Did anyone ever notice one?

[dolllover]

I agree that the carriage should have been in the movie.

[chrstnwmn7]

I noticed a carriage but it was brown. I was wishing for the brown one myself. But love the yellow one too!

[StarTrekCaptain]

I am the one who posted about the doll tea lesson set with Nan.

Is yellow what they really would have had back then? It seems like brown is more...accurate, Of course, I don't know, so...anybody know?

[dornroeschen]

Here is a picture of a yellow coach on the Colonial Williamsburg Homepage, if you click on the picture you get it a bit bigger. Hope this helps.

[schallerwoods]

Those of you who have it taped, or the DVD look closely. The carriage is in the movie. It is further up the line when they show carriages arriving for the ball. It's very quick and easy to miss.

The ark is also in the movie and easy to miss. It's in the very first house scene. Nann and William are playing wih it on the floor. The roof of it is off and you can see the compartments that hold the animals.

Nann

[lscogbill]

I read an article in our local paper yesterday about toys with staying power, and Noah's Ark was mentioned. Apparently it was a hot item up through the Victorian era as it was still one of the few toys allowed for Sunday play. So it could be possible that all the girls through Samantha had one. Incidentally, it mentioned that the jumping jack toy (where you pull a string and his arms and legs do jumping jacks) was a hot toy 400 years ago.

[StarTrekCaptain]

I read something too where they said kids were not allowed much play on Sunday because it would not be holy, but they could still play with Noah's Ark because it was a biblical toy and promoted a bible story/lesson.
Since Noah's Ark was typically only brought out on Sundays, many have been well-preserved and are still around today.
I guess since they only played with them usually once a week, they didn't get as battered as other toys.

[Dolly6]

I know yellow carriages definitly were "in vogue" during the colonial period. George Washington arrived at his inauguration in a yellow carriage that sounds a lot like Felicity's. I wonder if they thought of that?

I had noticed the light colored carriage just leaving the shot of Lady Templeton's house, but wasn't sure it was yellow. I wish they'd given it more screen time!