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Details of source films for main extracts used in the Free Time episode of Commonwealth on Film.

The Commonwealth Dances听
British Movietone 20/9/1965
In Trafalgar Square and the Royal Albert Hall, a spectacle of dance and music marks the beginning of the first Commonwealth Festival of Arts. In Hyde Park a fireworks display designed by John Piper marks the opening of the fortnight.听 Also featuring a 大象传媒 News interview with John Akar, director of the Sierra Leone group, on the controversy re the country鈥檚 topless dancers.

The World About Us: Ogunde: Man of the Theatre听
大象传媒 07/09/1980 听听 听 听听
Film about Chief Hubert Ogunde, founder & actor-manager of a Nigerian travelling theatre group.

Commonwealth Magazine: 2
大象传媒 31/05/1955听听听听听
From the 大象传媒鈥檚 monthly Commonwealth news magazine comes this National Film Board of Canada story听 鈥淪pringtime in the Sugar Bush鈥� 鈥� featuring the maple groves at St. Alexander College, Ironside, Qu茅bec, a popular spot when the sap begins to flow.

Commonwealth Magazine: 4
大象传媒 23/08/1955 听 听听
Featuring听 a Harvest dance from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and Punjabi strolling players performing a Bhangra dance. From the same edition, 鈥淟usaka Calling鈥�, a film on the Central African Broadcasting Service of the short-lived Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Commonwealth Magazine:12听
大象传媒 16/05/1956
India 鈥� Realm of Sound: The work of All-India Radio, including a lively and very 鈥�50s comedy-show recording.

Whicker's World: 1
大象传媒听 21/03/1959 听听
In a piece originally shown on the "Tonight" programme, gourmand roving reporter Alan Whicker visits a floating restaurant in Hong Kong.

Television and the World听
大象传媒 31/10/1961听
From this special programme surveying the impact of television on the people of five continents, a look at pioneering Western Nigeria Television, which began broadcasting in 1959.听

Australia: Beyond the听Fatal Shore: Body and Soul
27/08/2000 听 听 听听
From the landmark documentary series in which cultural commentator Robert Hughes returned to Australia to assess the state of the country 鈥� this extract takes us to the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, the ultimate in Aussie hedonism.

This is Ska
Jamaican Film Unit / Overseas Film and TV 1964
Filmed on location in Kingston, Jamaica, this documentary features the movers and shakers of this innovative music scene, and demonstrates its wonderfully athletic dance steps.听

June in Jamaica
Vista Production / Overseas Film and TV 1961
The glamour and glitz of the Miss Jamaica beauty pageant, in glorious 35mm colour.

Robinson's Travels: 2 Lucknow to the Hills
大象传媒 19/12/1979 听
Robert Robinson takes part in the Lucknow Kite Flying Association Tournament, and learns that in this joyous sport there鈥檚 a vicious streak!

Commonwealth Fashion Show
British Pathe 1967
At London鈥檚 Marlborough House Princess Margaret enjoys a feast of fashion from all corners of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth Magazine: 14听
大象传媒听 11/07/1956听
Sport doesn鈥檛 get much more extreme than buffalo racing in South Kanara in India.听听 听