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Free cinema [DVD].

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: BFIVD717 | British Film InstitutePublication details: London : British Film Institute, [2006]Description: 3 DVDs (414 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([40] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DVD 416A
Contents:
disc 1 (184 min.). Free Cinema 1 (81 min.): O Dreamland (1953, 12 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; a Sequence film ; direction, Lindsay Anderson ; camera and assistance, John Fletcher -- Momma don't allow (1956, 21 min.) / with the Chris Barber Jazz Band ; editing, John Fletcher ; camera, Walter Lassally ; written & directed by Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson -- Together (1956, 48 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; with Michael Andrews, Eduardo Paolozzi, Valy, Denis Richardson, Cecilia May ; story and scenario by Denis Horne ; photography, Hamed Hadari ; music by Danielle Paris ; [music] played by Sinfonia of London ; editing, Lindsay Anderson, John Fletcher ; directed by Lorenza Mazzetti, in collaboration with Denis Horne --
Free Cinema 3 (103 min.): Wakefield Express : the portrait of a newspaper (1952, 32 min.) / produced by Michael Robinson ; commentary spoken by George Potts ; songs by Snapethorpe and Horbury, Secondary Modern Schools ; band music by Horbury Victoria Prize Band ; photography, Walter Lassally ; direction, Lindsay Anderson -- Nice time (1957, 18 min.) / produced by the British Film Institute's Experimental Production Committee ; music by Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group ; photography and sound, John Fletcher ; a film by Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner -- The singing street (1952, 15 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; [production, Norton Park Film Unit ; directors, N. McIsaac, J.T.R. Ritchie, R. Townsend ; photography, W. Geissler, R. Townsend] -- Every day except Christmas (1957, 38 min.) / Ford of Britain presents ; a Graphic production ; producers, Leon Clore, Karel Reisz ; commentary spoken by Alun Owen ; music, Daniel Paris ; photography, Walter Lassally ; direction, Lindsay Anderson --
disc 2, Free Cinema 6 (118 min.): Refuge England (1959, 25 min.) / The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund presents ; with Tibor Molnar, Abdul Hamid Khan, Leonard Ryland, Bill Collins ; photography, Walter Lassally, Louis Wolfers ; script, László Márton ; music played by Peter Timar ; direction, Robert Vas -- Enginemen (1959, 17 min.) / Unit Five Seven ; photography, Andrew Hall, Ewan Halleron, Eric Harrison ; editor, Christopher Faulds ; written and directed by Michael Grigsby -- We are the Lambeth boys (1959, 48 min.) / Ford of Britain presents ; music by Johnny Dankworth ; commentator, Jon Rollason ; editing, John Fletcher ; camera, Walter Lassally ; produced by Leon Clore ; directed by Karel Reisz ; a Graphic film -- Food for a blluuusssshhhhh (1959, 28 min.) / [direction/script, Elizabeth Russell ; camera, Alan Forbes ; editing, Jack Gold ; with Elizabeth Russell, Nicholas Ferguson, Felicity Innes, Brian Innes] --
disc 3, Beyond Free Cinema (112 min.): One potato, two potato (1957, 21 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; photographed by Peter Kennedy ; edited by Morag MacLennan ; music by Ann Driver ; written & directed by Leslie Daiken ; produced with the cooperation of the B.F.I. Experimental Production Committee -- March to Aldermaston (1959, 30 min.) / made by The Film and T.V. Committee for Nuclear Disarmament ; [narrator, Richard Burton] -- The vanishing street (1962, 19 min.) / The Jewish Chronicle and The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund present ; made in collaboration with Laszlo Acs ... [et al.] ; directed, photographed and edited by Robert Vas -- Tomorrow's Saturday (1962, 17 min.) / photography, Chris Faulds ; written and directed by Michael Grigsby ; a Unit Five Seven production -- Gala Day (1963, 25 min.) / The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund presents ; camera, John Mantell ... [et al.] ; editor, David Naden ; director, John Irvin ; a Mithras production.
Summary: "A highly influential but critically-neglected movement in British cinema history, Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary in the 1950s but also served as a precursor for the better known British New Wave of social-realist feature films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in February 1956, when a group, led by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, screened their short films at the National Film Theatre, Free Cinema proved so popular that five more programmes followed until 1959, featuring films by young British and foreign filmmakers. The BFI has brought together, for the first time, the eleven films of the three British programmes in this 3-disc box set. This definitive collection includes a number of fascinating shorts made on a shoestring budget" -- Container.
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3 Day Loan LSAD Library DVD collection DVD 416A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100566158

Collective title & section titles from disc menus. Film titles and credits from screen.

Originally produced as 16 motion pictures between 1952-1963.

Special feature (disc 3): "Small is beautiful : the story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers" (2006, col. with b&w sequences, 43 min.).

Booklet includes program notes by Christophe Dupin, reproductions of period documents pertaining to the movement, and a brief bibliography.

disc 1 (184 min.). Free Cinema 1 (81 min.): O Dreamland (1953, 12 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; a Sequence film ; direction, Lindsay Anderson ; camera and assistance, John Fletcher -- Momma don't allow (1956, 21 min.) / with the Chris Barber Jazz Band ; editing, John Fletcher ; camera, Walter Lassally ; written & directed by Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson -- Together (1956, 48 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; with Michael Andrews, Eduardo Paolozzi, Valy, Denis Richardson, Cecilia May ; story and scenario by Denis Horne ; photography, Hamed Hadari ; music by Danielle Paris ; [music] played by Sinfonia of London ; editing, Lindsay Anderson, John Fletcher ; directed by Lorenza Mazzetti, in collaboration with Denis Horne --

Free Cinema 3 (103 min.): Wakefield Express : the portrait of a newspaper (1952, 32 min.) / produced by Michael Robinson ; commentary spoken by George Potts ; songs by Snapethorpe and Horbury, Secondary Modern Schools ; band music by Horbury Victoria Prize Band ; photography, Walter Lassally ; direction, Lindsay Anderson -- Nice time (1957, 18 min.) / produced by the British Film Institute's Experimental Production Committee ; music by Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group ; photography and sound, John Fletcher ; a film by Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner -- The singing street (1952, 15 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; [production, Norton Park Film Unit ; directors, N. McIsaac, J.T.R. Ritchie, R. Townsend ; photography, W. Geissler, R. Townsend] -- Every day except Christmas (1957, 38 min.) / Ford of Britain presents ; a Graphic production ; producers, Leon Clore, Karel Reisz ; commentary spoken by Alun Owen ; music, Daniel Paris ; photography, Walter Lassally ; direction, Lindsay Anderson --

disc 2, Free Cinema 6 (118 min.): Refuge England (1959, 25 min.) / The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund presents ; with Tibor Molnar, Abdul Hamid Khan, Leonard Ryland, Bill Collins ; photography, Walter Lassally, Louis Wolfers ; script, László Márton ; music played by Peter Timar ; direction, Robert Vas -- Enginemen (1959, 17 min.) / Unit Five Seven ; photography, Andrew Hall, Ewan Halleron, Eric Harrison ; editor, Christopher Faulds ; written and directed by Michael Grigsby -- We are the Lambeth boys (1959, 48 min.) / Ford of Britain presents ; music by Johnny Dankworth ; commentator, Jon Rollason ; editing, John Fletcher ; camera, Walter Lassally ; produced by Leon Clore ; directed by Karel Reisz ; a Graphic film -- Food for a blluuusssshhhhh (1959, 28 min.) / [direction/script, Elizabeth Russell ; camera, Alan Forbes ; editing, Jack Gold ; with Elizabeth Russell, Nicholas Ferguson, Felicity Innes, Brian Innes] --

disc 3, Beyond Free Cinema (112 min.): One potato, two potato (1957, 21 min.) / The British Film Institute presents ; photographed by Peter Kennedy ; edited by Morag MacLennan ; music by Ann Driver ; written & directed by Leslie Daiken ; produced with the cooperation of the B.F.I. Experimental Production Committee -- March to Aldermaston (1959, 30 min.) / made by The Film and T.V. Committee for Nuclear Disarmament ; [narrator, Richard Burton] -- The vanishing street (1962, 19 min.) / The Jewish Chronicle and The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund present ; made in collaboration with Laszlo Acs ... [et al.] ; directed, photographed and edited by Robert Vas -- Tomorrow's Saturday (1962, 17 min.) / photography, Chris Faulds ; written and directed by Michael Grigsby ; a Unit Five Seven production -- Gala Day (1963, 25 min.) / The British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund presents ; camera, John Mantell ... [et al.] ; editor, David Naden ; director, John Irvin ; a Mithras production.

"A highly influential but critically-neglected movement in British cinema history, Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary in the 1950s but also served as a precursor for the better known British New Wave of social-realist feature films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in February 1956, when a group, led by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, screened their short films at the National Film Theatre, Free Cinema proved so popular that five more programmes followed until 1959, featuring films by young British and foreign filmmakers. The BFI has brought together, for the first time, the eleven films of the three British programmes in this 3-disc box set. This definitive collection includes a number of fascinating shorts made on a shoestring budget" -- Container.

DVD, region 2.

In English.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

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