The third in a season of films by the late Denis Mitchell , one of the pioneers of the modern documentary. Made in 1965 after Mitchell had moved to Granada Television, The Entertainers provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives of the singers, wrestlers, strippers and other clubland entertainers sharing a rooming house in a northern city. The first documentary film to be shot entirely on videotape, it was banned by the Independent Television Authority for ten months because of a brief scene where a stripper removed her top.