Monitor
Monitor: Summer Film Season
S4 • E26 Aug 6, 1961
The Light Fantastic
'Five million people in England go dancing every week'
A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco.
'That dancing as the subject of cine camera reporting can be compulsive in the extreme was brilliantly demonstrated.... a most encouraging trail-blazing programme' (The Observer)
and
An Interview with Michelangelo
'A relief to return to the heights of the ingeniously presented interview with Michelangelo' (The Listener)
Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.
'Five million people in England go dancing every week'
A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco.
'That dancing as the subject of cine camera reporting can be compulsive in the extreme was brilliantly demonstrated.... a most encouraging trail-blazing programme' (The Observer)
and
An Interview with Michelangelo
'A relief to return to the heights of the ingeniously presented interview with Michelangelo' (The Listener)
Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.