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Travelling Light (1959 Film)
''Travelling Light'' (also known as ''Ondines sans voiles'') is a 1959 British naturist pseudo-documentary directed by Edward Craven Walker (as Michael Keatering).Simon Sheridan, ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'', Titan Books 2011 pp. 38-39 It was written by Victor Hewitt. It premiered in London's West End. The film stars Elizabeth Walker, who was routinely described as Naturism's Ambassador in 1950s Britain. Plot Elizabeth, while sunbathing at Studland Bay gets invited to join some naturists on a trip to the famous nudist colony at Villata in Corsica. There, they meet Yannick, who performs a unique “underwater ballet” to Rimsky-Korsakov's '' Song of India''. At the end of her holiday, Elizabeth returns home refreshed and with a newfound enthusiasm for naturism. Cast * Elizabeth Walker * Yannick Philouze as underwater swimmer Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "''Travelling Light'' covers exactly the same ground as its many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Craven Walker
Edward Craven Walker (4 July 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a British inventor, who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. War record Craven was a pilot in World War II, flying a photo reconnaissance DeHavilland Mosquito over Germany to take photographs. He met his first wife, Marjorie Bevan Jones, at an air base where she was with the WAAF. The Astro lamp Genesis After the war, Craven developed an idea he saw in a country pub in Dorset. The pub had a contraption made by a regular, Donald Dunnett, a one-off device which used two immiscible (cannot be mixed) fluids as an egg timer. While it was rudimentary, Craven saw potential and set about perfecting it and turning it into a lamp. In his shed he mixed ingredients in bottles of different shapes and sizes. He discovered one of the best containers was a Tree Top orange squash bottle, and its shape subsequently defined the Astro Baby Lamp or Astro Mini as it was then called. Industry Craven with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studland
Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The village is located about north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, from which it is separated by Poole Harbour. The parish includes Brownsea Island within the harbour. In the 2011 census the parish had 182 households and a population of 425, though many of the houses in the village are holiday homes, second homes, or guest houses, and the village's population varies depending upon the season. Studland is famous for its beaches and nature reserve. Description Studland is sited in the lee of Ballard Down, close to the east-facing Studland Bay, a long curved sweep of sandy beaches backed by dunes and heathland. The beaches are named South Beach, Middle Beach and Knoll Beach, with another at Shell Bay to the north. Although a coastal village, the houses in Studland are mostly sited a few hundred metres inlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of India (song)
"Song of India" is a popular song adapted from the aria "Pesni︠a︡ indiĭskogo gosti︠a︡" (Song of the Indian Guest) from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1896 opera ''Sadko''. The melody was also used for the 1918 song " Beautiful Ohio", which became the official song of the U.S. State of Ohio. Tommy Dorsey recording In January 1937, Tommy Dorsey recorded an instrumental jazz arrangement featuring Bunny Berigan on trumpet, which became a jazz standard. Coupled with " Marie", the 78 rpm disc ''( Victor #25523)'' was a major hit for Dorsey, containing two of his most enduring recordings on one record, and which helped make him and his band into a household name as a popular music artist in the United States. Other recordings *Paul Whiteman also recorded a foxtrot arrangement of the song in 1921. *Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians recorded the song in 1936 *Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra recorded the song in 1938 * Ted Heath in 1957 * The Ramsey Lewis Trio in 1959 *1964 version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Documentary Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
