ATV Today: 08.07.1965: Malvern Festival

Summary

Leslie Dunn report about the Malvern Festival including an interview with the playwright J. B. Priestley and the organiser John Ridley.

Year:

1965

Duration:

0:05:28

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Leslie Dunn introduces the item with a piece to camera outside the Festival Theatre in Malvern explaining the history of the event which was last put on in 1949. Stills are used to show the ceremonial hand-over of the theatre to a trust that will now run it. We then see inside the theatre with has recently been renovated. The festival is due to open with a performance of 'An Inspector Calls'. Outside J. B. Priestley's home Leslie Dunn interviews Priestley and the theatre's director John Ridley about the relaunched festival.


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