Tony Palmer’s classic behind the scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by the Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

This was the first film made by the BBC ever to be networked in the USA, and the first of Tony Palmer’s three portraits of the great composer, the others being the Italia Prize-winning ‘A Time There Was’, and the multi-award winning ‘Nocturne’, made for the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth.

“A superb film (which) may well achieve the status of a classic, repeated again and again over the years… the brilliant editing (was) of the highest quality, making a natural partnership of music and picture.” – Sean Day-Lewis, The Daily Telegraph

With:
BENJAMIN BRITTEN, PETER PEARS, IMOGEN HOLST, JOHN CULSHAW, COLIN GRAHAM, SVIATOSLAV RICHTER, JULIAN BREAM, MARGARET PRICE, JAMES BOWMAN, HENRY MOORE, OWEN BRANNIGAN, JAMES BLADES, BRYAN DRAKE, ROBERT TEAR, HEATHER HARPER, STEPHEN REISS, SIR WILLIAM WALTON, JOYCE GRENFELL, E.M. FORSTER, OSIAN ELLIS, THE VIENNA BOYS CHOIR, THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Music featured includes:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Burning Fiery Furnace
The Building of the House
Nocturnal
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
The Golden Vanity
A Ceremony of Carols
The Spring Symphony

Directed & Edited by TONY PALMER
Executive Producer HUMPHREY BURTON

Benjamin Britten & His Festival [Omnibus] (Tony Palmer 1967).mkv

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Runtime: 	52 min 37 s
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Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when it’s discovered that Jean has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town’s most powerful family, and their cries for help are met with resistance from their new friends and neighbours.

2.14GB | 1h 21m | 1022×436 | mkv

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Subtitles:English SDH

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Synopsis:
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2.10GB | 1 h 18 min | 1024×508 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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synopsis
One of several British melodramas picked up for American distribution by Columbia in the late 1950s, The Long Haul stars Victor Mature and Diana Dors, two of the prettiest and most amply endowned screen personalities of the era. Mature is cast as American ex-GI Harry Miller, who takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie (Gene Anderson). It isn’t long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by the conniving Casey (Liam Redmond). His resolved momentarily weakened by his obsession with gang moll Lynn (Diana Dors), Harry finally decides to turn honest again–if the other crooks will let him live that long. Director Ken Hughes adapted the screenplay from a novel by Mervyn Mills….by Hal Erickson

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