The best of the week's news film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
and Weather
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Three intrepid aeronauts take off in a balloon from the grounds of Blenheim Palace. As they float over the English countryside in their antique craft they tell the dramatic, odd. and sometimes hilarious story of ballooning - and of the men who have drifted In these gay silken bubbles at the mercy of the winds in the magic of free flight.
Written by Douglas Botting
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Folk... Showbiz... Art
In the 70 years it's been around jazz has been all three. It grew out of the New Orleans community, became an entertainment commodity and finally produced an avant-garde as uncompromising as its counterpart in the world of 'straight' music.
From time to time cameras have been on hand for a moment of jazz history: in 1929, for example, when Duke Ellington's band was supplying 'jungle music' at the Cotton Club, and in 1932, when Louis Armstrong dressed up and gave an astonishing performance. A 1948 film promoted the Dizzy Gillespie big band, and the legendary Charlie Parker made one brief appearance on celluloid. These and other historic examples have been combined with new material to trace the rapid evolution of jazz and sketch in the social background.
Those appearing include:
Butch Cage and Willie Thomas, The Olympia Brass Band, Louis Armstrong, The Mardi Gras Indians, Alphonse Picou, Lillian Hardin Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Lester Young, Norman Granz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Gunther Schuller, John Dankworth, Dave Brubeck, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp
Commentary spoken by Alan Dobie
Written by Charles Fox, Geoffrey Haydon
(70 years of jazz: page 11)
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Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
with Ann Way, Robert Bernal, Jill Riddick, Lena Ellis
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from Perth: third day
by Satellite
Presented by David Kenning and Denis Kelly in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission
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Tony Bilbow introduces Lionel Jeffries' first film as a director, The Railway Children, and previews other films which will be showing during the Christmas holidays.
Philip Jenkinson gives a seasonal roundup of some of his most popular vintage requests.
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