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British, American, and Canadian capers in a bright new series of swinging, singing entertainment from an international line-up of stars with host Ray Stevens and regular guest stars Lulu, Cass Elliot as well as Billy Van, Carol Robinson, Solari and Carr, Dick Curtis, Steve Martin
(Programme recorded in Canada)
A hazardous journey along the upper reaches of the Orinoco to one of the most inaccessible tribes on earth.
The Maquiritare are a people renowned throughout the jungle for their extraordinary skills, many of which, like the making of blow-pipes and poisoned arrows, are recorded in this film for the very first time.
It also tells of the delicately balanced relationship between these proud, reserved and suspicious people and Herman Schlenker who filmed this unique record of their lives. It shows too how dangerous it becomes when so precarious a relationship turns sour.
He once told a coughing audience 'I want rhythmic coughing... make it louder!'
Leopold Stokowski has created glamour and excitement in the world of music for half a century. This film examines the colourful life that began 88 years ago in London.
The programme includes Stokowski rehearsing the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and his American Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No 8 (The Unfinished) and Sousa's march 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.'
A BBC/NET co-production
Tony Bilbow talks to Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, filmed at the Cinema City exhibition held recently at The Round House in London to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cinema. Before a large, enthusiastic audience, Sellers and Milligan revive some of their Goon Show zaniness and spark off some very funny moments as they discuss their careers and experiences in the film industry