Edinburgh Festival

Series

Series Name
London Line

Issue

Issue No.
360
Date Released
1971
Filmed
Aug 1971
Length of issue (in feet)
540
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Edinburgh Festival
  2. 2Music
  3. 3Duke Of Edinburgh Award Winners

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 3
Summary
COI synopsis: Each year at this time visitors arrive from all over the world to attend the internationally famous Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Festival and London Line cameras accompany a special party of visitors from Nigeria, here to study the administation of such festivals.
Researcher Comments
People featured include: Chief Enahoro, the Commissioner for Information for the Nigerian government; Peter Diamond, artistic director and organiser of the Edinburgh Festival; Nigerian sculptor, Ben Enwonwu; and Mr T. Adebanjo, editor of Nigeria magazine.
Local distribution only
New Commonwealth version
Keywords
Arts and crafts; Celebrations and festivals
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1257/360
Credits:
Support services
Barbara Simon
Sound
Bert Power
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Cutter
Chris Greenbury
Presenter
Cosmo Peters
Camera
Dick Ewen
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Producer
Graham Woodford
Support services
Judy Davison
Director
Nick Hague
Cutter
Peter Day

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Film Archive

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