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PARVEEN MIRZA chairs a discussion about social security benefits, with MANASHI BARUA , SHAHIDA AHMED and DAKSHA DESAI ; and there's music.
Producer YOUSUF AZIZ. Executive producer
ASHOK RAMPAL. BBCPebblc Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Parveen Mirza
Unknown:
Manashi Barua
Unknown:
Shahida Ahmed
Unknown:
Daksha Desai
Producer:
Yousuf Aziz.
Unknown:
Ashok Rampal.

stars Judy Garland , Mickey Rooney Continuing a season of films starring celebrated child actors. A pair of talented youngsters stage a musical to prove vaudeville is not dead. When ' the talkies' threaten their parents' livelihood and their own future, the juveniles dance their way to a big New York production.
Screenplay by JACK MCGOWA
KAY VAN RIPER
Produced by ARTHUR FREED Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Mickey Rooney
Unknown:
Jack McGowa
Unknown:
Kay van Riper
Produced By:
Arthur Freed
Directed By:
Busby Berkeley
Mickey Moran:
Mickey Rooney
Patsy Barton:
Judy Garland
Joe Moran:
Charles Winninger
Judge Black:
Guy Kibbee
Rosalie Essex:
June Preisser
Florrie Moran:
Grace Hayes
Mollv Moran:
Betty Jaynes
Don Brice:
Douglas McPhail

There is an old Chinese saying: 'One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third monk and no one will want to fetch water When a third monK arrives at a temple high up on a hill, all three monks go thirsty, until there is a fire ...
Directed by A DA Produced by SHANGHAI ANIMATION FILM STUDIO

Contributors

Directed By:
A Da

The music, moods, movements, people and politics of Britain's black communities.
Introduced by Juliet Alexander
Vince Herbert and Wayne Laryea This week: music from maze
Producers
ROY CHAPMAN. AMANDA THEUNISSEN Series producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Juliet Alexander
Introduced By:
Vince Herbert
Introduced By:
Wayne Laryea
Unknown:
Roy Chapman.
Unknown:
Amanda Theunissen
Producer:
Keith Sheather

Written, narrated by Chris Serle

'There are still a lot of young people around today with the same healthy contempt for difficulty and danger that Drake, Livingstone and Stanley had all those years ago. In this island of shopkeepers, the old bulldog breed is still there.' (Col. John Blashford-Snell)

Two thousand five hundred teenagers from riot-torn Toxteth, Brixton, St Paul's and other depressed areas were given the chance last summer to take a free holiday with the Army. Explorer John Blashford-Snell requisitioned the huge, disused bastion Fort George in the Scottish Highlands to let his young holiday-makers loose on the toughest adventure training scheme the Army could devise.

Contributors

Writer/Narrator:
Chris Serle
Subject:
John Blashford-Snell
Film Editor:
Tim Cawston
Film Cameraman:
Dave Gray
Sound:
Martyn Clift
Producer:
Keith Latham
Director:
John Lee

by Charles McNeown

Lyttleton Old School is a rather indifferent boys public school. The most casual observation of this establishment reveals its dedication, not to the education of the pupils, but the comfort of the staff.

(Feature p12)

Contributors

Music Arranger:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Designer:
Jan Spoczynski
Producer:
Gareth Gwenlan
Director:
John B. Hobbs
Pinkerton:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Miss Shilling:
Eleanor Bron
Renfrew:
Michael Elwyn
Davies:
Clive Merrison
Clifford:
Andrew Robertson
Beech:
Derek Francis
Parsons:
David Sibley
Flax:
Alan Parnaby
Bursar:
Paul Hardwick
Headmaster:
Derek Farr

A series of eight documentaries about some of the leading masters of martial arts and their skills. 2: Kalari - The Indian Way
Narrated by Dennis Waterman
Kalari has been practised in the villages of south India for 2,000 years It is almost unknown, even in India, and yet its masters are doctors, healing their community as well as teaching a deadly art.
Film cameraman jim SAUNDERS Sound recordist ROGER LONG Film editor LIZ THOYTS
Assistant producer HOWARD REID written and produced by MICHAEL CROUCHER. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Waterman
Unknown:
Jim Saunders
Unknown:
Roger Long
Editor:
Liz Thoyts
Producer:
Howard Reid
Produced By:
Michael Croucher.

A serial in six parts, starring
Kenneth Welsh , Jennifer Dale Martha Henry , Gabriel Arcand 2: Buddy, Can You Spare 17 Million Dollars?
Montreal 1935: Savage depression, breadlines, unemployment, suicide and despair. The bank is now foreclosing on James Munroe unless he can raise 17 million dollars within a month. When his son meets the daughter of a Scottish peer and invites her father to stay, Munroe sees a solution.
Screenplay by DOUGLAS BOWIE Directed by DENYS ARCAND
Executive producer MARK BLANDFORD A CBS (television) production

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Welsh
Unknown:
Jennifer Dale
Unknown:
Martha Henry
Unknown:
Gabriel Arcand
Unknown:
James Munroe
Play By:
Douglas Bowie
Directed By:
Denys Arcand
Producer:
Mark Blandford
James Munroe:
Kenneth Welsh
Catherine Munroe:
Martha Henry
Jimmy Munroe:
Peter Dvorsky
Cleo Munroe:
Jennifer Dale
Larry Munroe:
Joseph Ziegler
Amy Munroe:
Mitch Martin
Helen Percy:
Pamela Redfern
Arthur Chisholm:
Tony van Bridge
Gene Prudhomme:
Gabriel Arcand
Lord Percy:
Robert Clothier
Maureen:
Marie Fay
Lord AtholStan:
Alexander Knox
Metcalfe:
Charles Jolliffe

11.50 Topology: Classifying Surfaces Geometrically
Think of a surface. You can construct it with, at most. two special surfaces; take several copies, distort them, connect them.
12.15 am Instrumentation: Position Transducers and Counting
The Moire fringes you see when lace curtains move across each other are actually used to measure movement with great accuracy. The inventor of the Moire fringe counter, the late Dr L. Sayce. illustrates the method.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr L. Sayce.

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