Learning on ScreenKarate Crazy
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In her search for new ways of keeping fit while in Britain, Vicki Luke visits a lunch time karate class in London’s Soho. She discovers that far from being the oriental mystery it once was, many Londoners - including stockbrokers, civil servants and secretaries - have gone karate crazy.
- Researcher Comments
- Features karate Sensei K. Enoeda and includes interviews with two of his pupils: merchant banker, Mark Walker and 19 year-old Sue Waughman. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version.
Additional information posted by Andy Humphreys at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl8qpWu5pI4 (accessed 4/12/2012) I met Enoeda Sensei and filmed him with a high speed (slow motion) 16mm film camera. Commissioned by EMI, edited by Keith Judge (Grasshopper) and the soundtrack composed by Francis Monkman of Curved Air, the result was a mysterious film, a combination of Kata and combat demo. See front and end of this video. It was shown on London Weekend Television. Then I showed it to the COI (Central Office of Information) and was asked to incorporate it into a TWIB - This Week in Britain - a Foreign Office series for Commonwealth countries about life in the UK - and shown here. The late Enoeda Sensei is a legend in the Shotokan karate world. - Keywords
- Sport
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1053
- Credits:
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- Director
- Andy Humphreys
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- R.I. Phillips
- Presenter
- Vicki Luke
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- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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