Learning on ScreenRita Hunter
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Rita Hunter has been called one of the world’s top ten sopranos, but she began singing in pantomine. Michele meets her at London’s Sadlers Wells opera and talks about her rise from music hall to the New York Metropolitan Opera House. Rita Hunter sings Wagner, and for This Week In Britain, a chorus from ‘Tie me kangeroo down’.
- Keywords
- Performing arts
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /1293 - used for synopsis
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
- COI Reference
- MI 936/745
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- AI Films
- Camera
- AI Films
- Producer
- Anthony Thomson
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Charles Leigh-Bennett
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jennifer Lucas
- Presenter
- Michele Brown
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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