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THE PERFORMING ARTS

ON FILM & TELEVISION

CATALOGUE

Film and video materials held by the archives

and collections of BFI, Arts Council England, LUX,

Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video

Study Collection relating to theatre, dance, music, performance art, politics and poetry

Balletomines, 1954

2011

Acknowledgements

This catalogue was commissioned by MI:LL (Moving Image: Legacy and Learning), an Arts Council England initiative to support projects and develop strategies that promote engagement with the arts through the moving image. Researched, written, edited, designed and published by

Helena Blaker

James Bell

Michael Brooke

Elaine Burrows

Bryony Dixon

Christophe Dupin

Jane Giles

Amy Howerska

Edward Lawrenson

Deborah Salter

Dan Smith

Louise Watson

With thanks to Karen Alexander, Nigel Algar, Nigel Arthur, Steve Bryant, Mike Caldwell, Ros Cranston, David Curtis, Will Fowler, Philippa Johns, Nathalie Morris, Patrick Russell, David Sin, Mike Sperlinger, Gary Thomas, Rebecca Vick, Ian White,

Andrew Youdell and Juliane Zenke.

All stills courtesy of BFI Stills, Posters & Designs A BFI Publication 2011 available to download from www.bfi.org.uk BFI

21 Stephen Street

London

W1T 1LN

UK

Telephone +44 (020) 7255 1444

www.bfi.org.uk 2

Contents

Please click on a word/link to be taken automatically to that part of the Catalogue

How to Access Films...............................................................................................................5

Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film 1895 - 1930.......................................12

Records of Performances and Actualities.......................................................................13

Music Hall Artistes and Themes in films made for Cinema.........................................28

Films based on Music Hall Sketches and Plays..............................................................35

Fiction films about Music Hall..........................................................................................36

Chapter 2: Theatre.................................................................................................................48

Classical Theatre................................................................................................................50

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)..................................................................................54

Seventeenth to nineteenth century playwrights...........................................................71

European Playwrights of the Twentieth Century...........................................................85

Pre-War British and Irish Writers.....................................................................................91

Post-War Theatre in Britain and Ireland.......................................................................100

Other Dramatists:.............................................................................................................128

American Theatre............................................................................................................132

Television Drama.............................................................................................................140

Missing Believed Wiped...................................................................................................147

Chapter 3: Dance.................................................................................................................154

Classical Dance.................................................................................................................... 155

Ballet Film Collections.....................................................................................................155

Classical Performers.........................................................................................................165

Choreographers & Companies........................................................................................178

Ballet Films........................................................................................................................ 198

Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary Dance............................................................211

Modern Performers..........................................................................................................212

Modern Dance Films........................................................................................................227

Dance Films for the Camera...........................................................................................232

Contemporary Dance Film-Makers................................................................................237

Avant-Garde Dance Films...............................................................................................256

Folk Dance.........................................................................................................................272

Popular Dance and Entertainment.................................................................................280

Chapter 4: Music..................................................................................................................297

Musicals.............................................................................................................................29 7

Folk Music..........................................................................................................................402

Jazz Music..........................................................................................................................405

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Popular music...................................................................................................................414

World Music......................................................................................................................530

Feature films with music themes (A-Z).........................................................................535

Music: See also..................................................................................................................540

Chapter 5: Performance Art and Artists' Film & Video..................................................542

Artistic Contexts...............................................................................................................543

Chapter 6: From Politics to Poetry.....................................................................................657

Speech and deconstructing language............................................................................657

Political Oratory................................................................................................................660

Social Order.......................................................................................................................696

Film Poems & Adaptations (A-Z)....................................................................................708

Poets and Poetry...............................................................................................................726

Chapter 7: Cinema Acting Styles.......................................................................................734

Comedy..............................................................................................................................7 49

Method acting and post-war American writing for Cinema......................................752

British cinema of the 1930s-50s......................................................................................757

British cinema of the 1960s & 1970s..............................................................................763

Post-War Independent European and American Cinema...........................................770

International Cinema / National Theatres....................................................................778

British cinema of the 1980s- 2000s................................................................................781

Experimental Narratives.................................................................................................786

Index of People.................................................................................................................788

Index of Directors.............................................................................................................811

Index of Titles...................................................................................................................821

Full Contents........................................................................................................................842

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How to Access Films

This Catalogue explores the relationship between the performing arts and film to provide both an index and an approach to programming. The film titles included represent a selection rather than a definitive subject listing from the archives of the BFI, Arts Council England, Central St Martins British Artists Film and Video Study Collection and LUX. A source is given for every title in the catalogue. The contact details for the sources are listed below along with some general information about each organisation. BFI

21 Stephen Street

London

W1T 1LN

UK

Telephone +44 (0) 20 7255 1444

www.bfi.org.uk The BFI National Archive is the largest collection of film and television material in the world and includes over 200,000 fiction and non-fiction film titles, 800,000 television titles and 1,000,000 stills, from 1895 to date. The BFI creates access to its collections through film distribution, research viewing facilities, online availability, video publication and footage sales to filmmakers.

BFI Distribution

Email bookings.films@bfi.org.uk

Telephone +44 (0)20 7957 4709

Access is offered to 35mm, 16mm film prints, DCPs, Digibetas, Blu-Rays, and DVDs for cultural, commercial and educational exhibition (eg cinemas, festivals, film clubs/societies, universities and schools). As archive film prints can be of variable quality, public exhibitors should check print condition at the time of booking If Distribution rights are owned by the BFI you will be charged a hire fee plus transport costs. If Distribution rights are not owned by the BFI you will be asked to make a rights clearance relating to the use of BFI Archive Viewing Copies, plus a print hire fee and transport costs. If BFI Distribution does not have rights holder contact details, the BFI's Information Services may be able to assist you in locating this (see contact details below). DVD copies: Please note that this Catalogue reference two types of DVDs (i) if the archive source indicated is 'BFI DVD' these can be publically screened providing the rights are cleared, and are often available to purchase; (ii) if DVDs are listed as 'Reference copies only' and the archive source is the 'BFI National Archive', then these are reference copies which are viewable only via the BFI's Research Booking Service and cannot be booked for public screenings.

BFI Information Services

Telephone +44 (0)20 7255 1444

5 Opening Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am-12 noon; 3pm-5pm You can find additional information about the research services offered here:

BFI Research Viewing Service

Email researchviewings@bfi.org.uk

Telephone +44 (0)20 7957 4726

Film and DVD copies may be viewed for a fee by appointment at the BFI, 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN. Our offices are just off Tottenham Court Road, which is also the location of the nearest underground station.

BFI Special Collections

Email: speccoll@bfi.org.uk

Tel: +44 (0)20 7957 4772

Special Collections holds a unique and diverse collection of cinema and television ephemera. It includes personal and working papers from individuals and organisations involved in film and TV production. The collections also include programmes, tickets, autographed letters and promotional material, including over

30,000 press books and other cinema memorabilia. Special Collections are available to

view by appointment at the BFI's offices in Stephen Street, London W1.

BFI Mediatheques

You can watch over 2000 complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheques at BFI Southbank London; QUAD centre for art and film Derby; Cambridge Central Library; Wrexham Library North Wales;

Discovery Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

More information, and a full list of featured titles, can be found here:

BFI YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/BFIfilms Presenting hundreds of free films from the BFI National Archive, plus previews of new and forthcoming BFI releases and seasons, expert commentaries and interviews.

BFI InView

http://www.bfi.org.uk/inview/ Free to all UK Higher and Further Education users via an academic institution login, the BFI InView website makes available one thousand hours (2000 titles) of non- fiction film and TV to view or download, alongside eight thousand pages of related documents. Selected from the BFI National Archive, InView's collection captures diverse perspectives on events, developments, and debates through the 20th and into the 21st century.

BFI Screenonline

www.screenonline.org.uk

An online encyclopaedia of British film and TV,

featuring short films, single television programmes in their entirety and clips from feature-length films. Please note that the information and stills on the site can be seen by all, but the moving image content may only be accessed via UK educational organisations and public libraries. 6

Archive Film Search

www.bfi.org.uk Launching in mid-2011, an online facility for searching the databases of titles held by the UK's regional film archives (South West Film & Television Archive; North West Film Archive; Amber Films; Northern Regions Film & Television Archive; East Anglian Film Archive; Media Archive for Central England; Screen Archive South East; Yorkshire Film Archive; London's Screen Archives; Wessex Film & Sound Archive) and the BFI National Archive. Some of the films held by the archives will also be available to view free online.

BFI Video Publishing

Specialising in British rediscoveries, archive non-fiction, Artists Film & Video and International classics, the BFI Video label is a collection of around 300 releases commercially available in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray, with 40 new editions published every year. Available to buy from all video stores and online (Amazon etc).

BFI Video on Demand

The BFI works with a number of commercial partners including LOVEFiLM.com, iTunes, etc to make its collections available to buy and download via Video on

Demand (VoD).

BFI Footage Sales

Email footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Telephone +44 (0) 20 7957 4842

For rates and further information on clips of titles from the BFI National Archive for sale to UK and International film and television programme makers.

Arts Council England (ACE)

ACE funded film production from the 1950s-90s, specialising in documentaries about the arts and experimental work. Many titles in the collection contain rare material about individual artists, while others offer definitive coverage of their subject. Several hundred of these titles are available on

DVD through Concord Video and Film Council Ltd.

ACE Film Bookings

Contact Concord Video and Film Council Ltd

Telephone: (01473) 726 012

www.concordmedia.co.uk (click on the link to 'The Arts' on the left hand side, and then on 'Arts Council') Please note that Concord only distribute via DVD. For 16mm film bookings of ACE titles, please contact BFI Distribution, with rights clearances via the Arts Council (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk).

ACE Research Viewings

http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/ The University of Westminster's Arts on Film Archive offers a complete database and online video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced up to 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. Due to copyright restrictions the ACE films can only be streamed to ac.uk domain addresses. 7 Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection

Central St Martins College of Art and Design

107-109 Charing Cross Road

London

WC2H 0DU

UK

Email info@studycollection.org.uk

Telephone +44 (0) 20 7514 8159

http://www.studycollection.org.uk/ The British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection is dedicated to documenting the achievements of British moving-image artists. It contains over 4000 video copies of artists' works, approximately 5000 still images, files on 450 artists, a library of over

1000 books and magazines, a collection of historical posters and publicity materials,

and documentation relating to key artist-led organisations, public funding bodies, etc. The Study Collection welcomes by appointment post-graduate researchers, curators, programmers, artists, and anyone interested in the academic study of

British Artists' Film and Video.

Research: the British Artists Moving Image Database The British Artists Moving Image Database is designed to assist research into British artists' film and video. It covers experimental and avant-garde film, video art, artists' television, gallery-based installations and other works that use moving image and audio-visual multimedia technologies, made by British and British-based artists. The database provides comprehensive information about several thousand works, including the date of making, first exhibition site (if known), the original format and often a short synopsis. It is also a guide to the dispersed national collection of British artists' moving image works. It identifies the holdings of public and academic collections, archives, distributors and dealers, their location and conditions of access. LUX

Shacklewell Studios

18 Shacklewell Lane

London

E8 2EZ

UK www.lux.org.uk

Telephone +44 (0)20 7503 3980

LUX is an arts agency which explores ideas around artists' moving image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing, education and research. LUX is the only organisation of its kind in the UK, it represents the country's only significant collection of artists' film and video and is the largest distributor of such work in Europe (representing 4500 works by approximately 1500 artists from 1920s to the present day). 8 The LUX titles in this Catalogue feature the filmmakers' own synopses (by kind permission of LUX).

LUX Film Bookings

http://lux.org.uk/collection/hire All titles owned or archived by LUX can be hired through their booking service.

LUX Research Viewings and Information

LUX titles can be viewed and further information found at either the main LUX website: www.lux.org.uk (click on 'Collection' and then 'Watch') or at www.luxonline.org.uk

Guide to Entries

Title entries look like this:

Black Nativity

UK 1961 Dir Langston Hughes

1975 Feet

16mm B&W

Black American presentation of the nativity story. From the New York stage production by

Langston Hughes.

Archive source: BFI National Archive

An explanation of what this information means is given in italics below: Black Nativity (film title + TV or funding programme strand if applicable) [transmission date: 18/11/1980 (T)] (In the case of television broadcast titles, this indicates the date of the film's first transmission on UK television) UK 1961 Dir Langston Hughes (country of production / year of production / director)

1975 Feet (length of film footage if known, or length in minutes is indicated in many cases)

16mm B&W (film or video format - more than one format may be listed; 'Reference copy only'

indicates no public screening materials / colour or Black & White) Black American presentation of the nativity story. From the New York stage production by Langston Hughes. (short synopsis) Archive source: BFI National Archive (where to get the copy from - more than one source may be listed; please note that the BFI National Archive and BFI Distribution collection may in some cases both hold a version of the title listed). 9

Introduction

This Catalogue was commissioned by MI:LL (Moving Image: Legacy and Learning), an Arts Council England initiative to support projects and develop strategies that promote engagement with the arts through the moving image. Intended for use by programmers, curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers, this Catalogue gives an account of the histories of theatre, acting, dance, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television through referencing around 3500 titles selected from the combined collections of the BFI, Arts Council England, Central St Martins British

Artists Film & Video Study Collection and LUX.

The film and television collections of these archives include titles from the very beginnings of cinema (1895) through to recent works. Some of the materials listed are

35mm film prints, but we have also included a wide range of titles with significant

content available only on DVD viewing copies (these may be off-air copies of television programmes) and will be clearly indicated as 'DVD (Reference copy only)'. Due to rights and materials issues, not all titles listed in this Catalogue will be available to screen in all contexts; the relevant Archive sources will be able to advise on any restrictions. Furthermore the material nature of the collections may create issues relating to the availability and quality of requested copies. Please also note that the information in this Catalogue has been drawn from many different sources (including databases, online sources and other catalogues). While we have endeavoured to ensure consistency, continuity of style and the accuracy of all filmographic, material and historical information and synoptic accounts, some idiosyncrasies and errors may have crept into the listings. You are advised to double check any areas of particular concern at the time of booking materials. The Catalogue shows the richness and particularity of the different collections, each of which preserves a distinct area of moving image culture and has its own relationship to performance, and which together add up to an extraordinary cultural resource. The BFI's fiction titles, documentaries and TV broadcast material, along with its Special Collections of Stills, Posters and Designs, provide an enormous range of material relating to the performing arts and to broader concepts of performance (concepts of theatrical presentation and of a relationship to and with the audience), as well as a view of the adaptation of the performing arts to the needs of cinema. They also offer a powerful insight into the work of performance that goes on behind the scenes. The materiality of the medium of the moving image is examined in the Central St Martins British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection, which also contains images derived from performances or records of performances by other artists. 10 11 The ACE documentaries give both a historical perspective to activity in the performing arts at specific periods, and critical context to the material in the other collections. The LUX collection specialises in experimentation, which is particularly pertinent to this catalogue. LUX titles feature synopses by the filmmakers, giving a particular sense and feel of their films. The combination of the collections provides a complex view both of the performing arts in history, and of their adaptation in, or contribution to, these various moving image practices (artists' film and video; cinema features and documentaries; broadcast culture). They also give a perspective on how these practices have promoted the performing arts as disciplines and allowed them to grow. The collections show a range of different relationships between the moving image and live performance or the performing arts per se; one of the key distinctions is between material which provides a record of live performances and film which incorporates performance into the moving image artwork. The Catalogue aims to support a discussion about performance that reflects both its social aspect and the composite phenomenon that is created on- and off-stage. It also looks at performance as a concept and a construct. Philosophically, and in recent cultural theory, this also applies to the performance of social roles. This process can be seen as part of the founding relationship between theatre and cinema, which, as these collections show, can be explored both in terms of illusion and fantasy and in terms of the overt deconstruction of fictional narratives. This casts light both on the backstage production of stage performances and on the construction of cinema icons and their effect on society's subcultures through the power of the image. And it may also allow us a vantage point from which to look at the creation of theatrical spaces in public where engagement occurs on a number of different levels. The Catalogue is organised in chapters by discipline, broadly following a chronology of subject matter and personalities, and within those sections listing films by production date, for a historical perspective, or alphabetically in the case of more miscellaneous groupings. However the chapter 'From Politics to Poetry' is organised predominantly by theme, and then chronologically. We have tried to keep duplication of content to a minimum, but certain titles or personalities may belong in more than one chapter (or conversely appear to be 'missing' from a section). There is a Contents page upfront and at the back of the Catalogue are alphabetical indexes of personalities and titles plus a Full Contents Guide listing the subjects within each chapter to facilitate navigation. One of the benefits of online publishing is the ability to search and find within what we hope is a document that makes for enjoyable and informative browsing. The Catalogue is also available to download for free.

Helena Blaker

Jane Giles

March 2011

Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film 1895 - 1930

Good Companions (1933)

Introduction

This chapter focuses on the holdings of the BFI National Archive that relate to films of music hall artistes. Amongst the holdings are direct recordings of performances (for example, the early sound on disc films such as Billy Merson In Harry Lauder Burlesque - a direct to camera performance spoofing another music hall personality) and actuality films involving music hall personalities. Films featuring music hall artistes in comedies or dramas made for cinema are also featured, such as Don Quixote (UK 1923) with George Robey in a semi-straight role as Sancho Panzer. Films based on specific music hall sketches or plays are represented, also fiction films about the music hall of the era plus rare examples of music hall sketches from

1895-1930 made into later comedies such as The Bailiffs (UK 1932), based on a

scenario by Fred Karno and featuring himself in a cameo role.

Please note:

x Titles in [Square Brackets] have been supplied by Archive cataloguers because the original title has been lost. x All prints are 35mm unless indicated. x The footage given relates to the viewing copy of the print and this can be watched at BFI Stephen Street. x Many early film prints are incomplete, in which case every effort has been made to indicate this. x Any missing data means that the films have not yet been fully catalogued by the Archive. x Nitrate viewing copies are subject to viewing restrictions. 12

Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film

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Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film

Records of Performances and Actualities

This section features films of music hall artistes where performances have been recorded more or less directly on film. For example, see the early sound on disc films such as Billy Merson in Harry Lauder Burlesque a direct to camera performance spoofing another music hall personality. This category also includes actuality film involving music hall personalities.

Comic Costume Race

UK 1896 Prod Paul's Animatograph Works

43ft.

35mm B&W

An actuality film of a race in comic costume, in progress at the annual music hall Sports fundraising event on July 14th 1896 at Herne Hill, London. We see the view across the park from one end of the racetrack as four men race towards the camera and change into pantomime costume (clowns costumes, wig, top hat and tutu) which are held in wicker baskets. The participants race back down the other end to where a crowd is gathered. Note: The participants have not been identified as yet. Many of these occasions were filmed and the films distributed commercially, including the films of the most celebrated of all music hall artistes, Dan Leno, at the event of 1902.

Archive source: BFI National Archive

Lumière C.N.C. Compilation - Programme 1

France 1896 Prod Lumiere

249 ft.

35mm B&W

Compilation of Lumiere films shot in Britain, which includes variety acts filmed outside the Empire, Leicester Square. The relevant items are: Entrée Du Cinématographe (UK 1896), Danseuses Des Rues (UK 1896), Nègres Dansant Dans La Rue (UK 1896), Danse Javanaise (UK 1896), Jongleur Javanais

UK 1896) And Lutteurs Javanais (UK 1896).

Archive source: BFI National Archive

Agoust Family of Jugglers

UK 1898 Prod British Mutoscope and Biograph Company

35mm B&W

Note: There are several other music hall and variety acts contained within the Biograph collections of both the BFI National Archive and the Netherlands Filmmuseum. contained within NFM Biograph Compilation No. 3

Archive source: BFI National Archive

Has He Hit Me?

UK 1898 Prod British Mutoscope and Biograph Company A comic boxing display by the McNaughton brothers, Gus and Tom.

Archive source: BFI National Archive

E. Williams and His Merry Men

UK 1899 Prod unknown

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Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film

35mm 141.

35mm B&W

A seaside minstrel show, this film shows E.H.Williams' 'Merry Men', performing two sketches on a small outdoor stage in front of a wooden hut at Rhyl, Wales. Eight comedians in black face perform a minstrel comedy sketch, dressed as schoolchildren harangued by a schoolmaster. The troupe then perform as black-faced minstrels, wearing striped jackets and white flannels, with ten sitting in line on chairs, while two perform a dance routine in front of them. The two minstrels (the cornermen) on the ends of the seated line both hold tambourines. Note: Pierrot or Minstrel shows were traditional seaside entertainments and might feature artistes onquotesdbs_dbs42.pdfusesText_42

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