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The feature film starring
Yul Brynner , Gina Lollobrigida
A spectacular epic production of the conflict between the Egyptians and the Israelites.
Screenplay by ANTHONY VEILI. ER PAUL DUDLEY and GEORGE BRUCE
Based on a story by CRANE WILBUR Produced by TED RICHMOND
Director KING VIDOR. Films: pages 19-11

Contributors

Unknown:
Yul Brynner
Unknown:
Gina Lollobrigida
Unknown:
Anthony Veili.
Unknown:
Paul Dudley
Unknown:
George Bruce
Story By:
Crane Wilbur
Produced By:
Ted Richmond
Solomon:
Yul Brynner
Sheba:
Gina Lollobrigida
Adonijah:
George Sanders
Abishag:
Marisa Pavan
Pharaoh:
David Farrar
Joab:
John Crawford
Hezrai:
Laurence Naismith
Ahab:
Jose Nieto
Sittar:
Alejandro Rey
Baltor:
Harry Andrews
Zadok:
Julio Pena
Nathan:
William Devlin
Takyan:
Jean Anderson

in The Vagabond
Pathos joins hands with comedy when Charlie, a shy itinerant musician, falls in love with the 'gypsy's drudge.'
Written and directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN
Music composed by DENNIS WILSON
Executive producer WILLIAM FITZWATER

Contributors

Written and directed by:
Charles Chaplin
Music composed By:
Dennis Wilson
Executive Producer:
William Fitzwater
The vagabond:
Charlie Chaplin
The gypsy's drudge:
Edna Purviance
The gypsy hag:
Leo White
The artist:
Lloyd Bacon
The mother:
Charlotte Mineau

or How to See the Beauty of Maths The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures for Young People by Professor Christopher Zeeman , Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University
A series of six programmes 1: Linking and Knotting
In which children and objects are all tied up, to prove how easily intuition can be fooled by links and knots. Stretchy geometry is brought in to explain how knots work, and a simple twist of paper is shown to have some extraordinary properties.
Presented for television by HILARY HENSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Christopher Zeeman
Television By:
Hilary Henson

Celebrate the world of models by flying the Dr Who inter-galactic spaceship. Drive Stephenson's Rocket. Ride the amazing Bally-bunion monorail before it falls over sideways.
In the life of Robert Symes. premier baron of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, every model works and each one tells a story.
Film cameramen
NIGEL MEAKIN and EUGENE CARR. Film editor COLIN JONES
Producer ROBIN BOOTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Symes.
Unknown:
Nigel Meakin
Unknown:
Eugene Carr.
Editor:
Colin Jones

Introduced by Richard Baker
The traditional New Year's morning concert from the Musikvereinssaal, featuring the music of the Strauss family, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Willi Boskovsky and the Vienna State Opera Ballet
Produced for ORF/ZDF by HERMANN LANSKE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Baker
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Unknown:
Hermann Lanske

These two artists recently made a triumphant tour of Europe playing duos for two violins and for violin and viola (with Pinchas Zukerman playing the viola part). The tour ended with two memorable concerts in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Festival Hall.
This film shows them rehearsing for their concert at the Royal
College of Music and includes the following works filmed during the concert itself:
H. Wieniawski Two Caprices, Op 18, Nos 1 and 2 Leclair Sonata No 5
Mozart Duo in G major, K423, for violin and viola
Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola
H. Wieniawski Caprice in A minor
Lighting cameraman DAVID FINDLAY Sound BRIAN SIMMONS
Film editor PETER HEELAS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER NUPEN Produced by ALLEGRO FILMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Pinchas Zukerman
Unknown:
H. Wieniawski
Unknown:
David Findlay
Directed By:
Christopher Nupen
Produced By:
Allegro Films

by satellite
Australia v England from Melbourne
BOBBY SIMPSON introduces highlights of the third day's play. Commentators
KEITH MILLER , FRANK TYSON NORMAN MAY and PAUL SHEAHAN
Television presentation by the AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION

Contributors

Introduces:
Bobby Simpson
Commentators:
Keith Miller
Commentators:
Frank Tyson

The last in a short season of feature films starring one of America's most versatile actors. with Virna Lisi , Terry-Thomas
In one of his funniest comedy roles, Jack Lemmon plays a confirmed bachelor, Stanley Ford, who awakens one morning to find himself married. Both Stanley and his manservant Charles are appalled at the abrupt change in their well-ordered lives and Stanley finds that his successful strip cartoon character ' Bash Brannigan ' begins to undergo a disturbing change.
Written and produced by GEORGE AXELROD Directed by RICHARD QUINE. Films: pp 16-17

Contributors

Unknown:
Virna Lisi
Unknown:
Jack Lemmon
Produced By:
George Axelrod
Directed By:
Richard Quine.
Stanley Ford:
Jack Lemmon
Mrs Ford:
Virna Lisi
Charles:
Terry-Thomas
Edna:
Claire Trevor
Harold Lampson:
Eddie Mayehoff
Judge Blackstone:
Sidney Blackmer
Tobey Rawlins:
Max Showalter
Dr Bentley:
Jack Albertson

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