Tony Palmer - All You Need Is Love Vol.5 DVD

Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the countrys foremost directors of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love The full series of films was released in 2008 to great critical and commercial... acclaim. Volume five tackles the subject of Vaudeville and its very English equivalent Music Hall. Music Hall as a description means exactly what it says. A hall usually at the back of a tavern or pub in which music was performed by local entertainers for financial gain. It is thus the earliest example of a popular music industry. In a sense through all its manifestations music hall or vaudeville or variety has remained true to this original description. Thus the film begins and ends in Las Vegas (with Judy Garland) a palace of varieties to end all palaces of variety. En route we travel via Londons Palace Theatre the Palladium and the Windmill. [show more]

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