Coventry Arts Umbrella was opened in 1955 by the Goons and serviced Coventry's music, literary and arts scene about two decades. Scene of Coventry's first folk club and links with Phillip Larkin, Two Tone and more.
For anyone wishing to research the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club or any aspects of - the following types of material are held there - Note - this list may not be all the material held. Coventry History Centre Programmes. PA 1884 / 5 / 11 Programmes of the Umbrella Club April 1968 - Nov 1974 PA 1884 / 5 / 10 Programme of the Umbrella Club June 1967 / Feb 1968 PA 1884 / 5 / 103 Newsletters / Programme Sept 1970 PA 1939 / 9 (Also 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14) Umbrella Club Programmes 1960 PA 1939 / 16 Notice of Poetry Reading at Umbrella March 1969 Function and Structure of the Umbrella Club PA 1884 /1 / 18 Outline of functions and structure of Coventry Arts Umbrella Club late 1960's / Early 1970's Umbrella Magazine PA 1884 / 5 / 3 Umbrella Magazine 1959
Umbrella Magazine 1959
PA 1884 / 5 / 5 Umbrella Magazine 1960 PA 1884 / 5 / 2 Umbrella Magazine 1959 PA 1939 / 8 Umbrella Magazine 1959 PA 1884 / 5 / 1 Umbrella magazine Oct 1958 PA 1884 / 4 / 5 (ALSO 7 / 8) Umbrella Magazines 1960 / 62 / 61 Publicity Materials and Press PA 1884 / 6 / 13 Correspondence and papers relating to publicity for 8th Jan 1962 - 22nd May 1967 PA 1884 / 5 / 14 Advertisement posters for 'Umbrella' - The Magazine 18th Oct 1958 - 18th Oct 1959. PA 1884 / 1 / 2 Leaflet advertising the Umbrella Club Feb 1960 PA 1884 / 5 / 163 Photo Copy of press cuttings re- Umbrella Club activities 1960 / early 1970's PA 1939 / 2 Two Volumes of press cuttings 1960 / 67 PA 1939 / 3 Loose Press cuttings 1960 / 69 Material from Little Park street 1955 - 1960 CCD / CES / 1 / 28 97,Little Park Street - History of 1960 - 61 PA / 1184 / 5 / 75 Photos of Spike Milligan 1955 Material from 18, Queen Victoria Road 1960 - 72 PA 1884 /5 /18 Newsletter regarding plans for the Umbrella 1 Aug 1961 PA 1884 / 5 / 44 Programme for building an Arts Centre in Coventry May 1965 PA / 18884 / 5 / 155 Programme for the Importance of Blues and Jazz 1967 Material after 1972 - including The Charterhouse. Photographs of the Umbrella PA 1884 /5 / 176 Photograph of exterior of the Umbrella Club 18, Queen Victoria Road 1960's. PA 1884 / 5 / 193 Photograph of rear of Umbrella Club 18, Queen Victoria Road 1960's Collections PA 1884 Collection - Umbrella 1955 - 1995
Maurice Edelman (born in 1911) was a huge supporter of the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club from the mid
50's until his death at 64 in 1975. I can't tell you his full involvement at this stage but he's mentioned as giving talks on the arts at the Umbrella's first premises in Little Park Street Coventry and sitting on various committees. Certainly by 1974 when the Umbrella moved to the Charterhouse, he was re-elected as president according to the Coventry Evening Telgraph with Terence Watson (editor of Umbrella magazine) as Vice President. "Elected at the age of 34 as the member for Coventry in the Labour wave that swept Churchill out of as Prime Minister after VE Day, Maurice Edelman served in Parliament until his death 30 years later.", Born in Cardiff, Wales the son of a Jewish
photographer, Mr. Edelman graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was first elected to Parliament in 1945 representing the Coventry West constituency.
Since 1950 he was returned to Parliament in every election for the newly formed Coventry North-West constituency. Mr. Edelman managed to combine his parliamentary career with that of a successful author. He wrote many books, including “Disraeli in Love,” and a biography of David Ben Gurion. Literary Works by Maurice Edelman
Maurice turned to writing novels which were subsequently popular for Television adaptions and his literary output included -
Disraeli in Love (Novel) / biography of David Ben Gurion. / Prime Minister's Daughter (Armchair Theatre1970 / The Last Flight (Armchair Theatre1957) / A Distant Thunder (A Play for Today 1 episode1970) / The Switch ( ITV Playhouse 1 episode1971) / The Chief Whip Sends his Compliments (Thirty Minute Theatre1970) / The Cabinet Papers (BBC Play of the Month 1967) / The Crossfire (Novel & ITV Play of the Week 1967) / The Minister (Novel & Theatre 6251965) / The Happy Ones (First Night TV Series 1 episode1964) / The Vision and the Dream (About Religion TV series 1 episode1962) / A Dream of Treason (Novel & Playhouse 90 1 episode1960) / Episode in Paris (Theatre Royal 1956). Disraeli Rising (1975? - 2nd part of a proposed trilogy) /
Maurice Edelman 1911-1975. Paintiings, drawings & watercolours 9 July - 4 September 1977 Herbert Art Galleriy and Museums, Coventry [Paperback] / Who Goes Home (Novel) / All on a Summer's Night (Novel 1969) /
He also appeared on What's My Line / Panorama / This Week.
Amazon link to second hand versions of some of his book. HERE
Other works(1961). Stage Play: A Call on Kuprin. Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Based on the novel by Maurice Edelman. Directed by George Abbott. Broadhurst Theatre: 25 May 1961- 3 Jun 1961 (12 performances). Cast: John Allen (as "Arthur Harrington"), Marie Baratoff (as "Mrs. Kendall"), Lydia Bruce (as "Vera Kuprina"), Dabney Coleman (as "American Couple/Marine Sgt. Loomis/Guard/Second K.G.B. Guard/Guard at Yalta") [Broadway debut], John Garson (as "Col. I.L. Makarov"), Halyna Harcourt (as "Nina/Friend of Jazz Enthusiast/Singing Girl"), John Hirst (as "Russian Sailor"), Claude Horton (as "Holloway"), Lauri Ikonen (as "Chess Boy"), Leon Janney (as "Professor Trifonov"), Rita Karin (as "Head Intourist Clerk/Book Peddler"), Doreen Kay (as "Tourist Couple/Kvas Vendor"), Eugenie Leontovich (as "Madame Kuprina"), Jeffrey Lynne (as "Jonathan Smith"), Victor Merinow (as "Intourist Aide/Soviet Policeman/K.G.B. Interpretor"), Andre Pascal (as "Tourist Couple/Russian Sailor/K.G.B. Guard"), Gedda Petry (as "Woman Porter/Flower Peddler/Singing Girl"), Joe Ponazecki (as "Tourist/Drunk"), Nicholas Saunders (as "Mr. Kendall/Guard at Yalta"), Edmund Shaff (as "Tourist Guide/Friend of Jazz Enthusiast"), William Swetland (as "American Ambassador"), Ludmilla Tchor (as "Assistant Clerk"), Ludmila Toretzka (as "Old Woman/Woman Sweeping/Ted Vadim Tourist") [final Broadway role], Tania Velia (as "American Couple/Jazz Enthusiast/Singing Girl"), George Voskovec (as "Professor V.V. Kuprin"). Produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince. SOURCE http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1618226/
When Man Denies the Brotherhood of Man
Maurice Edelman - London, England
Broadcast during the 1950s
"I am a politician. Oh yes, I know that sounds like a confession, but when at the end of the War I went into politics, it was because, like many other men in their 30s at the time, I wanted to take an active part in building a society which would be civilized and just. I went into Parliament, and by 1950, I was an experienced legislator sitting on innumerable committees." (To both read the rest of this broadcast and hear it told by Maurice Edelman please visit the websitehttp://thisibelieve.org/essay/16526/
"Elected at the age of 34 as the member for Coventry in the Labour wave that swept Churchill out of as Prime Minister after VE Day, Maurice Edelman served in Parliament until his death 30 years later. And while he may not have enjoyed the historical fame of Disraeli or the sales of Jeffery Archer, he may be the supreme representative of that exclusive class, the British MP-slash-novelist. Between 1951 and 1974, he published over a dozen novels, along with a handful of non-fiction works.
While I wouldn’t call him a great writer, Edelman was certainly adept at producing novels that managed to be both entertaining and intelligent. His paperback publishers tended to slap racy covers on his books in blatant attempts to convince unsuspecting browsers into thinking them essentially indistinguishable from other shelf fodder. One can picture copies of A Dream of Treason or Shark Island or Disraeli in Love next to the finest works of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mac Bolan or Barbara Cartland. Had he been more of a publicity hound, he might even have been able to boost his numbers into Jeffery Archer’s range."...........
To read the rest of the this interesting review please go to the website http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1384 Also you can download this novel free or view it online HERE on Universal Library.
This essay is from the “Obscure Coventry-based magazine – Umbrella” as Andrew
Motion termed it.
According to biographer Andrew Motion’s book A Writer’s Life – Philip Larkin P 500 “Blake Morrison’s main recommendation was that Larkin should include (in Required Writing: Miscellaneous pieces 1955 – 1982) the essay about his childhood, “Not the Place’s Fault”, which had originally appeared in the obscure Coventry-based magazine Umbrella in 1959.Larkin replied gratefully but insisted, “I have rather a mental block about “Not the Place’s Fault”. In construction it is written as a kind of commentary on the original poem (I Remember, I Remember), but this does not come through and in consequence it seems rather rambling. In addition, I think I said just a little more about myself than I really want known. These are the reasons why I should prefer it to remain in obscurity.” He was equally adamant to Thwaite and Monteith.” I feel,” he told Monteith in November “in some curious way that (the essay) exposes more of me than I want exposed, although heaven knows there is nothing scandalous in it.” “He was a candidly emotional and autobiographical writer who always disguised his self-revelations or passed them off as general truths……If he’d opened his book with “Not the Place’s fault” he would have raised expectations about the essay’s which followed”
About this volume ofUmbrella Contents of Umbrella -- Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 1959 LARKIN, Philip, Paul Jennings, R. Bryan Tyson, Ian Lovelock, John Hewitt, Alan Oliver, Taner Baybars, A.E. Burrows, Stephen Joseph, Owen Leeming, and Gerald Morrish) WATSON, Terence.C. = editor. Published by The Umbrella Club, Coventry, 1959. Softcover. Magazine. Octavo. 104-142pp. Stapled wrappers. Lightly rubbed with corner crease, near fine. This literary magazine includes Philip Larkin's essay, "Not the Place's Fault," which he came to dislike because he felt it revealed a bit too much about himself and so was not reprinted during his lifetime. Additional contributions from Watson, Paul Jennings, R. Bryan Tyson, Ian Lovelock, John Hewitt, Alan Oliver, Taner Baybars, A.E. Burrows, Stephen Joseph, Owen Leeming, and Gerald Morrish.
In this essay though, despite Larkin’s dismissal of it, is some marvellous description of
Coventry outside the station in those days –
“In addition to the man selling the Midland Daily Telegraph there was frequently a white Eldorado box-tricycle that sold lime-green or strawberry-pink ices at a penny each….Beside the paper seller was a cigarette-machine, which gave ten cigarette for sixpence and twenty for a shilling (but with twenty you got a half penny back under the cellophane).” Etc. Read the full article here in the pdf viewer -
To Download the above article on pdf click the link HERE -
I Remember, I Remember byPhilip Larkin Coming up England by a different line For once, early in the cold new year, We stopped, and, watching men with number plates Sprint down the platform to familiar gates, "Why, Coventry!" I exclaimed. "I was born here." I leant far out, and squinnied for a sign That this was still the town that had been 'mine' So long, but found I wasn't even clear Which side was which. From where those cycle-crates Were standing, had we annually departed For all those family hols? . . . A whistle went: Things moved. I sat back, staring at my boots. 'Was that,' my friend smiled, 'where you "have your roots"?' No, only where my childhood was unspent, I wanted to retort, just where I started: By now I've got the whole place clearly charted. Our garden, first: where I did not invent Blinding theologies of flowers and fruits, And wasn't spoken to by an old hat. And here we have that splendid family I never ran to when I got depressed, The boys all biceps and the girls all chest, Their comic Ford, their farm where I could be 'Really myself'. I'll show you, come to that, The bracken where I never trembling sat, Determined to go through with it; where she Lay back, and 'all became a burning mist'. And, in those offices, my doggerel Was not set up in blunt ten-point, nor read By a distinguished cousin of the mayor, Who didn't call and tell my father There Before us, had we the gift to see ahead - 'You look as though you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said. 'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'
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The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon The Coventry Factor: Philip Larkin and John Hewitt Adrian Smith University of Southampton New College This article may also be of interest to you - you can download it on PDF
Extract - " The popular assumption is that Larkin cut loose from Coventry in the autumn of 1940 when he went up to Oxford, and that thereafter he was
clearly indifferent towards ‘home’: he never railed against narrow provincialism (living literally at the end of the line, and being the man he was, this scarcely an option), but he rarely displayed anything more than polite interest in a city which was to experience profound changes throughout the remaining forty-five years of his life. Evidence to support this view naturally
UMBRELLAMAGAZINE was edited byTerence Watsonfor the Coventry Arts Umbrella in Coventry in the late 50's and early 60's.Philip Larkin was published in one issue. More of that in another post on this site. Two issues of Umbrella are available below aspdf files.Click on the links above the pictures to view or download free.
Described by Andrew Motion as "an obscure Coventry-based magazine" in Philip Larkin's biography. Here are two of the issues for download / viewing. Further copies can be viewed at Coventry Archives at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery.
To quote from one of the issues
"Umbrella" provides a medium for expression of opinion regarding the arts and related topics. It also welcomes fiction and poetry having a contemporary relevance."
Download this copy of Umbrella via this Google Docs link - Umbrella Vol 2 Spring 1960
NOTE - If you downloaded this before March 29th 2015 - this is a complete version - the previous version had pages missing but I've obtained a complete version now.
Umbrella -- Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 1959
LARKIN, Phllip, Paul Jennings, R. Bryan Tyson, Ian Lovelock, John Hewitt, Alan Oliver, Taner Baybars, A.E. Burrows, Stephen Joseph, Owen Leeming, and Gerald Morrish) WATSON, T.C., edited by
New material March 2014 (There may be some mistakes - the notes are hard to read) Vol 1 No1 Oct 1958 - Contents EM Forster - C.P. Cavafy 1883 - 1937 P5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy Owen Leeming's Connet P7 R.B. Greenwood - Lit and crit George Macbethhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacBeth Geoffrey Dendline(?) - Smedley's Hydro (Matlock) http://www.andrewsgen.com/matlock/pix/matlock_smedley_1906.htm A.E Burrows - Product of Shakespeare JEM Lucie-Smith - Cardinal Bird GF Smerrish - Satellites and Spivs John Overton - Another Old Coup W.F. Holland - Separate Buildings ....................................... Vol No 2 Spring 1959 John Hewitt - Art critic, literary historian, poet and Art director of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry. ......................... Vol 2 - 1961 No 7 Gianni Zambardi - Drive to Saltburn
A DRIVE TO SALTBURN - by Gianni Zambardi Published in Umbrella Magazine Vol 2 - 1961 No 7 Huntcliffe at Saltburn
(From The magazine of the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club) A DRIVE TO SALTBURN County of coves, osiers, red banks Threaded by switchback roads, curling into sandy-shelves, over ridge, rocks, cliffs, stabbed by a criss-crossed shafthead - Distant tips of gouged iron-earth-ranks of miners homes, smoke wisps fluttering. In an inshore wind, staunched by church towers Black, time-muffled stone under the sky's tread We feed our eyes, speed for a snatched hour Break the customary formality of daily Dying in regular doses, to thrill along. Past pink pubs, wash the sour sluggishness form our steps; pick up wet briny seaweed, and learn a salty land's song. Gianni Zambardi 1961 - Travel writer BA King's College London, Now (1961 that is!) Living in Finsbury. Written two novels Time to Go and Me and My Friend. He also published his poetry in the sixties.
The Transcendental Cauldron was an underground fringe arts festival or 'happening', to take place during Halloween, which it's organisers hoped would bring the Umbrella more in line with what was happening at places like The Arts Lab in Drury Lane. The Programme sheet (posted here) announced - "During the weekend 31st October - 2nd November 1969, the Umbrella Club is to promote a Fringe Arts Festival. Events planned include Films, Music, Drama, Poetry, Light Shows and an exhibition of posters." The Transcendental Cauldron took place over the weekend 31st October to November 2nd 1969. The initiative came from the Umbrella Film Group who initially proposed an Underground film festival but Drama organiser Jo Petter saw this as the nucleu s of a more ambitious event.
"A catalyst for a great mixed media event, experiment and party." The organisers were Jo Petter (Drama / Lights, Posters), Mike Taunton (Poetry / Music) Doug Deakin (Folk) Darell Viner(Lights)- links to his history, Martin Lee (Music). The Theme
The Programme
"The Cauldron will be a festival or happening to take place during Halloween. The theme is the new underground art forms as exemplified by the work of Arts Lab in Dury Lane. We hope several types of participants - Umbrella members who attend parties, local teachers and other intelligent and serious students of the current scene, hippies, New Left, 50 visitors from Birmingham, London etc expected." The Transcendental Cauldron included films, music, lights, drama, music, psychedelia and poetry. Films (which can be seen on the programme, were Scorpio Rising - Directed by Kenneth Anger; Relativity and Sins of the Fleshapoids.
Trev Teasdel's memories
" The Transcendental Cauldron was my entry into the Umbrella Club. It was quite exciting and the beginning of a new era for me. I was 18, an apprentice Electrician and had to attend day release at Coventry Technical College. It was there that I saw the poster and knew I had to go to it. I was writing song lyrics and listening to John Peel at the time but didn't really have much connection to the Coventry music and arts scene but I wanted to get to know people who were interested in similar things and this seemed like a portal to the local underground scene - and it was! Al Docker joined DF Gibbs (where I worked) in the meantime, and we began sharing music in our lunch breaks - some of the new underground albums. Al had been to the Umbrella and was to start organise the bands there soon.
On the Friday night, I met up with Al and he took me around the pubs where musos, students and hippies hung out - The Dive Bar (Lady Godiva) in particular. I met the newly formed Wandering John in there with Al and discovered I already knew one of them - John Alderson - (our mothers were friends and I'd played with him when I was a kid). John's acoustic blues outfit Last Fair Deal were going to be on later, so I looked forward to seeing John's band.
The Umbrella events didn't start until pub closing time and we made our to Queen Victoria Road. The building was just a town house that could have doubled as a Solicitor's office. As you went through the door, there was a small reception desk into a narrow hall. Stairs on the left and a Tolkien like mural on the wall, a function room - dining room size on the right and into the Coffee bar - a very tiny kitchen where you could by coffee, tea and hot dogs - but no alcohol. Small as it was, the coffee bar was the scene of some amazing late night and heated discussions between hippies, 'straights', beadred folkies. Just sitting in the coffee bar listening was an education and cultural experience that you'd not get anywhere else except perhaps the University and even then...Out the back was a small wooden hut - the Theatre! It held 50 people and some of the bands played there or rehearsed. The room on the right as you went in was used for various events and meetings, poetry, music or lectures. The main function room was upstairs - a long room like someones front room. Here the main events were held and there was a piano too. The rest of the rooms upstairs and on the next floor were administration rooms. The Transcendental Cauldron was the first mixed media event and obviously made an impression on me. In 1997 I created a Teesside and North Yorkshire wide arts festival called Merlin's Cauldron.This was a three week festival with workshops performances, exhibitions and street theatre. I don't think we saw the films or the other events - more interested in the music at that stage." Music Friday 31st October Lounge 8pm - 11pm and Midnight - 3pm - Last Fair Deal - Asgard Saturday 1st November Lounge 8pm - 11pm and Midnight to 3am - Ra Ho Tep / Chris Jones Aggression. Sunday 2nd November Lounge 8pm - 11 pm Dando Shaft. Folk: There will be no meeting this weekend but regulars are invited to the Cauldron where the music room has been reserved for Folk activity.
Light Show - Lounge 7pm. This is under the direction of Alan Worral.
The Bands -
Last Fair Deal- were an acoustic blues trio culled from mainly from the electric blues and R & B band Wandering John. It consisted of John Alderson - Dobro, John Gravenor - Vocals (both from Wandering John) and John Westacott (bassist with progressive Jazz Rock outfit Whistler (Kevin Harrison's early band) but here playing blues harp and fiddle. The covered country blues songs like The Louisiana Blues, There's a Man Going Round Talkin' Names.
Here is Youtube Footage of both the mother group Wandering John and Last Fair Deal from their Reunion Concert in 2010
The reunion concert was filmed for DVD at the Sphinx Club in Coventry September 4th 2010 by Gordon Smith (AKA Nomad) and his wife Mary Ball of Lyme Regis Internet TV. The concert was a tribute to wandering John's former manager Dave Sullivan who died of cancer and the very well attended reunion concert raised a lot of money for the Macmillan Cancer Trust. The band, who hadn't played together since 1971, were in excellent form.
John Gravenor - Vocals / Tamborine, John Alderson - Lead / Rhythm guitar and Dobro (with Last Fair Deal)
Ade Taylor - Bass Guitar and Backing Vocals.
Paul Hayes - Drums (Paul Hayes was courtesy of Third Alert - an excellent drummer but not an original member) - The original drummers were Al Warder (who couldn't be present) and Jim Pryal who was in the audience dancing!).
Guest Musicians who joined them on stage - Neol Davies (Guitar / Vocals) (of the Selecter), Tim James (Harmonica and vocals) Ex Ra Ho Tep. Trev Teasdel - introduced the show with some rapping poetry and Tim Healey - Mixing desk.
Here's the full Wandering John / Last Fair Deal Concert in parts -
Part 1
Part Two
Part Three - Last Fair Deal Set
Part 4
Part Five
Asgard
Asgard were the next band on. They were based at the Umbrella and after this event I'd sit in on their rehearsals in the Theatre. Neol Davies (later of Selecter) used to play sometimes with Asgard, adding in acoustic or sitar. Asgard were a kind of Pink Floyd outfit and indeed were being courted by John Peel who put them on at Mothers in Birmingham after Pink Floyd recorded Ummagumma there. The band split unfortunately before Peel could fully work his magic.
To give you a glimpse - Asgard recorded a demo - the recording quality is not great but it's the only record we have of the band. One track is on You Tube there are others on Reverbnationhttp://www.reverbnation.com/asgardcoventry
Ra Ho Tep were next on. Tim James's avant garde jazz outfit.I have no audio but here's a photo.
Next up were The Chris Jones Aggression. Chris's blues band were regulars at the Umbrella - songs like Catfish Blues with Chris's scat singing. Chris is still going strong today with his new band after touring the continent with Khayyam, playing the Speakeasy and Ronnie Scotts and more. His website is http://www.thecjband.com/ and you can find tracks by his new band on Reverbnation http://www.reverbnation.com/thechrisjonesband and Soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/chris-muff-jones
On the Sunday was Dando Shaft - Coventry's brilliant Acid folk band who recorded for Youngblood and RCA Neon.Martin Jenkins went on to play with Mathew's Sourthern Comfort, Bert Jansch, Whippersnapper and many more. The band are Cov legends.
FILMS
Theatre -
Friday 8pm & 12pm
Saturday 8pm & 12pm
Sunday 8pm.
Underground Films - Scorpio Rising
Director Kenneth Anger - (Colour, Sound 31 minutes 1964.)
"Occultists believe that 1962 was the end of 2000 years of Christian domination, and the beginning of a period of pagan domination coinciding with the Age of Aquarius in Astrology. Anger, seeing pop music, drug abuse and American Nazi style Motorcycle cultists as evidence of demonic forces at work, made Scorpio Rising to illustrate to the death throes of the 'Old Age' and beginning of the 'new age'.
A film extract is on Youtube
Relativity
Director: Ed Emshwiller (Colour, Sound, 38 minutes 1966)
This is an experimental feature made with the aid of a grant from the Ford Foundation. This metaphorical work about man's place in the universe uses ultra-high speed photography, pin point lighting in black limbo together with careful framing and superimposition to achieve complete visual control of time flow..
NB both these films have been refused a certificate by the British Board of Film Censors.
(Can't find this film on youtube or anywhere else)
Sins of the Fleshapoids - Director Mike Kuchar - Colour, sound, 50 minutes 1964
From the age of twelve the Kuchar brothers have specialised in producing parodies of Hollywood Movies. Early film included A Tub Named Desire, I was a Teenage Rumpot, Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof. The choice of film titles showing their humourous technique of talking Hollywood style to extreme. Mike Kuchar's Sins of the Fleshapoids features a cast of robots and overdeveloped women intent on taking over the world.
This is a trailer but the full film in several parts is on Youtube. This is the first part - the other parts follow on on youtube.
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10 minute supporting short directed by Richard Bartlett
next to the finest works of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mac Bolan or Barbara Cartland. Had he been more of a publicity hound, he might even have been able to boost his numbers into Jeffery Archer’s range."...........
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