Children’s Music Camp

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

1094

Date Released

1979

Length of issue (in feet)

175

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Children’s Music Camp

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: For many of us the task of learning to play an instrument is a chore rather than a pleasure - Maggie Palmer visits a camp at John Dankworth’s home, the village Wavenden in Hertfordshire where children learn that music making can be fun.

Researcher Comments

Includes an interview with Avril Dankworth, John’s sister who is he founder of the National Children’s Music Camps. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version

Keywords

Education and training; Music and dance

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 936/1094

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

John Wilson

Presenter

Maggie Palmer

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

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).

Series held

View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)