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Van Johnson hosts a spectacular tribute to the American war effort as portrayed by the Hollywood studio system on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Personal memories and film clips from Sylvia Sydney, Tony Randall , Douglas Fairbanks Jr , Ronald Reagan , Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne.

Contributors

Unknown:
Van Johnson
Unknown:
Pearl Harbor.
Unknown:
Tony Randall
Unknown:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Unknown:
Ronald Reagan
Unknown:
Humphrey Bogart
Unknown:
John Wayne.

The programme covering all aspects of Asian entertainment. The Indian artist M F Hussain discusses his unconventional career, ranging from painting film hoardings in Bombay to exhibiting with Picasso.
Presented by Shyama Perera.

Contributors

Artist:
M F Hussain
Presented By:
Shyama Perera.

Starring
Bette Davis
Claude Rains
Fanny Trellis marries Job Skeffington to save her adored brother Trippy from scandal. But fate decrees that she will regret her cruel behaviour.
Director Vincent Sherman
* FILMS: pages 49-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Bette Davis
Director:
Vincent Sherman
Fanny Trellis:
Bette Davis
Job Skeffington:
Claude Rains
George Trellis:
Walter Abel
Trippy Trellis:
Richard Waring
Dr Byles:
George Coulouris

Fifth of six programmes.
Defender Play. Fundamentals of defence, including a tip from Omar Sharif. With
Zia Mahmood and Michele Handley. Director/Producer Gordon Menzies A GM production for BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
Omar Sharif.
Unknown:
Zia Mahmood
Unknown:
Michele Handley.
Producer:
Gordon Menzies

Last of the series.
1968-9 - the Progressive Tendency. The late 60s - cowbells, kaftans, festivals, guitar heroes and supergroups. Featuring Pink Floyd,
Donovan, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Family, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Joni Mitchell. Producer David Jeffcock
● STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimi Hendrix
Unknown:
Joni Mitchell.
Producer:
David Jeffcock

Sounds of the Sixties

Original Series

1968-69: The Progressive Tendency

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Two England

The BBC's music archive programme reaches the end of the sixties and features Pink Floyd, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell.

Two festive works by the Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla (1876-1946).
Nights In the Gardens of Spain
The renowned Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha joins the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Charles
Dutoit, in a performance interwoven with film of the gardens of the Alhambra and the Generalife in Granada.
● STEREO
8.20pm Master Peter's Puppet Show
Puppets and singers combine in a mixture of realism and fairy-tale in this opera, completed by Falla in 1923, based on a misadventure of Cervantes's Don Quixote.
Performed by Opera Atelier and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer Niv Fichman
Director Larry Weinstein * STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Quixote.
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Director:
Larry Weinstein
Don Quixote:
Justlno Diaz
Master Peter:
Joan Cabero
Boy:
Xavier Cabero

BBC2's weekly cinema magazine. First -time director Barry Sonnenfeld talks about his $35 million comedy based on the cult cartoons of Charles Addams, The Addams Family, starring Anjelica Huston. Plus a profile of Sam Arkoff , the legendary B-movie producer who gave Corman, Coppola, Scorsese, Woody Allen and John Milius their breaks. And Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse talks about her first film.
With Howard Schuman.
Series producer Paul Kerr
Executive producer Daniel Wolf
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
9.40pm Dillinger
Starring
Warren Oates
Tonight's first Moving Pictures presentation features screenwriter John Milius
(Magnum Force, Apocalypse Now) who made his directorial debut with this Samuel Z Arkoff production about a top G-man who swears vengeance on John Dillinger 's notorious gang.
? FILMS: pages 49-56
11.20pm The Fall of the House of Usher
Starring
Vincent Price
The second Moving Pictures presentation is Roger Corman 's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe 's chilling tale about a family cursed by hereditary madness.
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 0 FILMS: pages 49-56

Contributors

Talks:
Barry Sonnenfeld
Unknown:
Charles Addams
Unknown:
Anjelica Huston.
Unknown:
Sam Arkoff
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
John Milius
Talks:
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Unknown:
Howard Schuman.
Producer:
Paul Kerr
Producer:
Daniel Wolf
Unknown:
Barraclough Carey
Unknown:
Warren Oates
Unknown:
John Milius
Unknown:
Samuel Z Arkoff
Unknown:
John Dillinger
Unknown:
Roger Corman
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
JohnDillinger:
Warren Oates
Billie Frechette:
Michelle Phillips
Melvin Purvis:
Ben Johnson
AnnaSage:
Cloris Leachman
Homer Van Meter:
Harry Dean Stanton
Baby Face Nelson:
Richard Dreyfuss
Pretty Boy Floyd:
Steve Kanaly
Roderick Usher:
Vincent Price
Philip Winthrop:
Mark Damon
Madeline Usher:
Myrna Fahey

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