Learning on ScreenFunny Business Is No Joke
Series
- Series Name
- Look At Life
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: The business of comedians and of writing humorous material for them. In this issue we find a look at the business behind the humour. The music halls are dying out and television and cinema have taken over. Morecambe and Wise are shown at work in the film studios. Then Coco, a clown of the circus world, and Osbert Lancaster, are shown evolving a cartoon. Other on-screen participants are Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
- Researcher Comments
- Look At Life Series 33 comprises Issues 417-429.
- Keywords
- Performing arts; Writers
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
The British National Film Catalogue Vol.5, 1967, p.96
British Movietonews Listing
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Jack Broome
- Production Co.
- The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
- Commentator
- Tim Turner
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- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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