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Last of six programmes with Professor Colin Blakemore 6: The Enchanted Loom
The human brain with its 100,000 million nerve cells has a complexity and performance which, in nearly all respects, far exceeds the capacity of any computer. Such machines which have, it is true, good memories and the ability to perform prodigious feats of calculation, are actually simple-minded when it comes to interpreting visual images we can recognise at a glance. The brain is the most intricate, complex product of evolution: the Enchanted Loom as it has rightly been called.
Presented for tv by BRIAN johnson

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Colin Blakemore
Unknown:
Brian Johnson

with Barbara Stanwyck Lelf Erickson and loan Freeman
The travelling carnival owned by Maggie Morgan is struggling to survive until she hires itinerant singer Charlie Rogers as a ' roustabout' - the carnival's general handyman. Elvis sings and fights to save the carnival from bankruptcy.
Screenplay by ANTHONY LAWRENCE and ALLAN WEISS from a story by ALLAN WElSS Produced by HAL WALLIS
Directed by John JOHN rich. Films: page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Stanwyck
Unknown:
Lelf Erickson
Singer:
Charlie Rogers
Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence
Unknown:
Allan Weiss
Story By:
Allan Welss
Produced By:
Hal Wallis
Directed By:
John John
Charlie Rogers:
Elvis Presley
Maggie Morgan:
Barbara Stanwyck
Cathy Lean:
Joan Freeman
Joe Lean:
Leir Erickson
Mme Mijanou:
Sue Anne Langdon
Harry Carver:
Pat Buttram

In remembrance of Her Serene Highness
Princess Grace of Monaco
In 1977 documentary film maker Kevin Billington directed this sensitive, affectionate biography of Princess Grace. He could not have foreseen the now bitter irony of his opening-the famous car sequence from To Catch a Thief. Princess Grace talks about her life, her role as a wife and mother, and illuminates not only the well-known Hollywood days of stardom but also her early career as a model and as a television and stage performer.
Among the contributors are her husband Prince Rainier, James Stewart , Alfred Hitchcock , William Holden , Stanley Kramer and Raymond Massey.
Title music sung by JOHNNY MATTHIS
Directed by KEVIN BILLINGTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Billington
Unknown:
James Stewart
Unknown:
Alfred Hitchcock
Unknown:
William Holden
Unknown:
Stanley Kramer
Unknown:
Raymond Massey.
Sung By:
Johnny Matthis
Directed By:
Kevin Billington

A series of five programmes 1: Taking Shape
'Innocent, modest, instructive and agreeable', were the qualities expected of the readers of women's journals of the 18th century but, when Victoria became Queen, the magazines began to reflect a new narrow role for women -that of wife and mother, a recipe which became the standard formula for the successful mass circulation weeklies of the 1930s. Commentary read by Maureen Lipman
Film editor JOHN JENNISON Director MARION ALLINSON Producer BERNARD ADAMS

Contributors

Read By:
Maureen Lipman
Editor:
John Jennison
Director:
Marion Allinson
Producer:
Bernard Adams

(The Shadow Warrior)
The award-winning film by AKIRA KUROSAWA starring Tatsuya Nakadal
'Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as the fire, immovable as the mountain' is the motto emblazoned on the banners of Shingen, legendary warlord of the Takeda Clan. But Shingen is mortal and as he Ides dying from battle wounds, he orders his Clan to keep Ms death secret for three years. Winner of the 1980 Cannes Golden Palm, this epic drama of feudal conflict in 16th-century Japan is based on a powerful warlord who used a ' kagemusha ' or double to take his place in battle.
Screenplay by AKtRA KUROSAWA and MASATO IDE
Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA
A Japanese film with English subtitles. (First showing on British television) Films: page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Akira Kurosawa
Unknown:
Tatsuya Nakadal
Unknown:
Takeda Clan.
Unknown:
Aktra Kurosawa
Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa
Shingen Takeda/Kagemusha:
Tatsuya Nakadai
Nobukado Takeda:
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Katsuyori:
Kenichi Hagiwara
Lord of the Western territories:
Daisuke Ryu
Lord of the Mikawa territory:
Masayuki Yui
Takemaru Takeda:
Kota Yui
A Sniper:
Akahiko Sugizaki

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