9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Retrosective - New British Cinema 1956-1968
It's Trad, Dad!
by Richard Lester
Country: UK
Year: 1962
Duration: 73'
The mayor and the dignitaries of a small city forbid the youths from there to listen and dance to the new music which they like. For this reason, two of them go off to look for a wellknown disk-jockey to organize a show in their main square. The show is very successful and the music is allowed again in the town.
Biography
film director
Richard Lester
FILMOGRAFIA
The Running, Jumping and Standing Still (Il film che corre, salta e sta fermo) cm, 1959
It's A Trad, Dad!, 1961
The Mouse on the Moon (Mani sulla luna), 1963
A Hard Day's Night (Tutti per uno), 1964
The Knack (Non tutti ce l'hanno), 1965
Help! (Aiuto!), 1965
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum (Dolci vizi al foro), 1966
How I Won the War (come ho vinto la guerra), 1967
Petulia (Id), 1968
The Bed Sitting Room (Il monolocale), 1969
The Three Mosketeers - The Queen's Diamonts (I tre moschettieri), 1973
The Three Mosketeers - Milady's Revenge (Milady), 1974
Juggernaut (id.), 1974
Royal Flash (Royal Flash - L'eroico fifone), 1975
Robin and Marian (Robin e Marian, 1976)
The Ritz (id.), 1976
Butch Cassidy and Sundance: the Early Days (Il ritorino di Butch Cassidy e Kid), 1978
Cuba (id.), 1979
Superman II (id.), 1980
Superman III (id.), 1984
Finder Keepers (Il treno più pazzo del mondo), 1985
Get Back! (id), 1991
Declaration
film director
"The film was shot in three weeks and cost fifty thousand pounds or something like that. It was all one set. I suppose it was the television training, but I shot all those sequences with three cameras. By going over the number three times in a row and changing camera positions, it enables you to have nine different setups with very little lighting change. Once you learn how to put the three cameras so that they don't drive the lighting cameraman mad in other words so that the key light is always coming from the same direction for all the cameras, you can get nine perfectly usable and different setups in the space of an hour on a musical number. This was the only way I knew how to work anyway, and it's something that I've continued with for all films. always use two or three cameras now." (Richard Lester, Interview with Richard Lester by I. Cameron e M. Shivas, "Movie", n. 16, winter 196869, p. 19)
Cast
& Credits
Director: Richard Lester.
Screenplay: Milton Subotsky.
Director of photography: Gilbert Taylor.
Editor: Bili Lenny.
Art director: Maurice Carter.
Musica aggiunta: Ken Thorne.
Esecuzione dei numeri musicali: Chris Barber and his Band, Terry Lightfoot and His New Orleans Jazz Band, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Gene Vincent and Sounds Inc., Brook Brothers, The Temperance Seven, Bob Wallis and His Storyville Jazz Men, Gary Bonds, Del Shannon, Chubby Checker, Gene McDaniels, Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band, Craig Douglas, Helen Shapiro, John Leyton.
Norrie Paramor.
Cast: Helen Shapiro (Helen), Craig Douglas (Craig), Timothy Bateson (il proprietario del bar), Felix Felton (il sindaco), Frank Thornton (il direttore della televisione), Bruce Lacey (il giardiniere), Hugh Lloyd (l'usciere), Arnold Diamond (il tecnico televisivo), Ronnie Stevens (il regista televisivo), Arthur Mullard (il capo della polizia), Derek Nimmo (il capocameriere), Mario Fabrizi (un cliente del night club), Deryck Guyler (il narratore).
Production company: Milton Subotsky.
Screenplay: Milton Subotsky.
Director of photography: Gilbert Taylor.
Editor: Bili Lenny.
Art director: Maurice Carter.
Musica aggiunta: Ken Thorne.
Esecuzione dei numeri musicali: Chris Barber and his Band, Terry Lightfoot and His New Orleans Jazz Band, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Gene Vincent and Sounds Inc., Brook Brothers, The Temperance Seven, Bob Wallis and His Storyville Jazz Men, Gary Bonds, Del Shannon, Chubby Checker, Gene McDaniels, Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band, Craig Douglas, Helen Shapiro, John Leyton.
Cast: Helen Shapiro (Helen), Craig Douglas (Craig), Timothy Bateson (il proprietario del bar), Felix Felton (il sindaco), Frank Thornton (il direttore della televisione), Bruce Lacey (il giardiniere), Hugh Lloyd (l'usciere), Arnold Diamond (il tecnico televisivo), Ronnie Stevens (il regista televisivo), Arthur Mullard (il capo della polizia), Derek Nimmo (il capocameriere), Mario Fabrizi (un cliente del night club), Deryck Guyler (il narratore).
Production company: Milton Subotsky.
