Momma Don't Allow, BFI Film; Walter Lassally; Chris Barber Band

Fishmonger's Arms, 287 High Road, Wood Green, London, N22

Walter Lassally on camera, Fishmonger's Arms, Wood Green ( Karl Reisz/Tony Richardson, 1956) filmed over nine Saturdays in 1955, at Wood Green Jazz Club, featuring the Chris Barber Band at the time of Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan and Ottilie Patterson.

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Previous posting on Walter Lassally

Walter Lassally, in Sydney, Australia

Radio Prague Interview, June 1, 2015

See also: Nice Time, 1957

BFI, Britain on Film:

"The swirling neon frenzy of Piccadilly Circus has never been better captured than in this innovative short, which presents the London landmark as a bewildering collage of image and sound. Swiss film enthusiasts and BFI employees Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner (later to become established art-house filmmakers back home) were inspired by their colleagues’ success with the Free Cinema programme to try their own attempt at low-budget documentary filmmaking. After shooting 6,000 feet of footage of 25 nights, they turned the limitation of an absence of synced sound to their advantage by crafting a sophisticated soundtrack. Utilising snatches ambient street noise, pop music and scraps of dialogue from the kinds of Hollywood films shown in West End cinemas, their collage of sound was used to both imaginative and ironic effect (such as the National Anthem played over a shot of a large Coca-Cola sign)".

Listen to Green Back Dollar at 7.20 (until 9.20 mark).