Nice Time is a 1957 documentary film made by Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta in Britain and included in the third Free Cinema programme at the National Film Theatre, London in May 1957. It won the Experimental Film prize at the film festival in Venice[1] and much critical praise. It is approximately 17 minutes in length, and comprises 190 shots of crowds of leisure-seeking people taken over 25 […]
The Golden Era
1957 ‘The Six-Five Special’
‘Six-Five Special’ intro http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/rocknroll/sixfivespecial.htm Only 2 surviving episodes CHK OUT https://sixtiescity.net/Mbeat/mbfilms125.htm This is most unfortunate because nothing remains of the show on film; this was long before the days of the ubiquitous video. One of the few clips one can see nowadays is that of the opening credits to the movie ‘Six-Five Special’, a train […]
Whence the mods?
In the same way that the ted style originated in the early 1950s in emulation of the rich dandies of post-war London who hankered after the imperial glory and certainties of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Britain, the mod style originated in the late 1950s in emulation of the growing intellectual middle-class crowd who hankered after Modern Jazz by […]
1959 Ted to mod transition – Stuart Hall article
Stuart Hall (1932-2014), a Jamaican who came to study in Oxford in the 1950s and thereafter becoming a teacher at secondary modern schools contributing to journals such as the New Left Review. In the autumn of 1959 he published a review-article entitled ‘Absolute beginnings: Reflections on the secondary modern generation’ in the Universities and Left […]
1956 British Pathé’s elephant trunk
A clip showing the fashioning of an elephant trunk quiff in a British barbers has had a fair share of views. Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT. Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT Supply TEXT. This barbers was on the Tottenham Court Road. A rough […]
1959 ‘I Ragazzi del Juke Box’
Another dire 50s film vehiculing musical performances. One must wait for the end of the film before getting anything that is properly rock’n’roll sung by Adriano Celentano (but interrupted by the commentator). For determined souls – or those who understand Italian – a version of the whole film can be viewed