Monitor - Season 4 Episode 24 Monitor: Summer Film Season
A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.
In this edition:
Variations on a Mechanical Theme
An investigation into mechanical instruments from the musical box to the automatic orchestra.
'Much of Monitor's best work has appeared among its miscellaneous short films like "Mechanical Instruments"... a kind of discursive essay which is not generally possible elsewhere in the commercial cinema world' (Sight and Sound) and George Chapman
In The Rhondda
Life in the Welsh mining valleys as seen by English painter George Chapman.
'Chapman's sympathy was in every canvas and model of his that we saw, as Wilfrid Owen's pity for the soldier was in his poetry.' (The Listener)
Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.
First Air Date: Feb 02, 1958
Last Air date: Jun 07, 2024
Season: 8 Season
Episode: 183 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Episode
Episode 1
Musician in Montmartre
The Eye of Cartier-Bresson
Lillian Hellman
Henry Moore
Man In A Landscape
The Light Fantastic
A Book of Hours
Katina Paxinou
Emlyn Williams
12/02/1961
The Devils of Loudun
Episode 13
Episode 14
The Class
The Hollow Crown
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Brecht's Berliner Ensemble
Episode 19
Prokofiev
Episode 21
Monitor: Summer Film Season
Monitor: Summer Film Season
Monitor: Summer Film Season
Monitor: Summer Film Season
Monitor: Summer Film Season
Monitor: Summer Film Season