A Short Film by John Nesbitt
You can’t go back to yesterday, the gate is locked and the key is lost.
I hope I got the quote right — it may be a paraphrase. Turner Classic Movies unfortunately doesn’t have “filler” listings in its program guide, only the movies. This “One-Reel Wonder” came after the execrable1 Du Berry Was A Lady last week (August 6).
Nesbitt was quite a prolific filmmaker. The short film My Old Town was from 1948 — a sentimental look back at how nice life was in the Old Town in the 1900’s or 1910’s, and how uncertain things are “today” with atomic bombs and traffic jams. It closes with a reminder that we tend to remember only the good parts when we’re having a bout of nostalgia, but most people wouldn’t go back.
1 I love Gene Kelly; don’t care much for Lucille Ball or Red Skelton