This Week in Britain #615: The National Theatre
Five-minute black-and-white report about the then part-built National Theatre on London's South Bank. Includes brief footage of Laurence Olivier and of the theatre's architect Denys Lasdon who explains the design. Liz Ferris as the reporter who talks to camera.
From the archive
A 1974 episode of a five minute TV series produced in the UK by the Central Office of Information for international broadcast from 1959 to 1980. In this episode, there is a look at Mary Quant, including interviews with Jean Shrimpton, David Bailey, Ernestine Carter, and Quant herself. There's also archival footage of her clothes, as well as a look at her current fashions.
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This Week in Britain #615: The National Theatre (1970) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Internet Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Eric Halliday
- Starring
- Liz Ferris, Denys Lasdun
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