UK, 14 April 1972-1 January 1982
254 episodes, average 26m
videotape, colour, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British magazine television series. For most of its run it was presented by Chris Kelly.
Premise
A weekly look at various aspects of cinema and the film industry aimed at younger viewers.
Episodes
Episodes with known genre content are listed in bold. Other episodes are listed for reference purposes only.
Illusions (14 April 1972)
Animals (21 April 1972)
Animation (28 April 1972)
Musicals 1 (5 May 1972)
Musicals 2 (12 May 1972)
Myths, Legends and Fairytales (19 May 1972)
Children in Films (26 May 1972)
Comedy 1 (2 June 1972)
Comedy 2 (9 June 1972)
Stunts (16 June 1972)
Documentaries (23 June 1972)
Historical Movies (30 June 1972)
The Western (10 July 1972)
Cartoons (17 July 1972)
Films about Famous Men (24 July 1972)
Classic Chases (31 July 1972)
Aviation (7 August 1972)
Animals and People (14 August 1972)
Dancing 1 (21 August 1972)
Music (28 August 1972)
Dancing 2 (4 September 1972)
Children’s Film Foundation (11 September 1972)
Comedy Westerns (18 September 1972)
Inventions and Devices (25 September 1972)
Charlie Chaplin (2 October 1972)
Schooldays (9 October 1972)
Film Make Up 1 (16 October 1972)
Film Make Up 2 (23 October 1972)
Science Fiction 1 (30 October 1972)
Science Fiction 2 (6 November 1972)
Elstree Film Studios (13 November 1972)
Elstree 2 (20 November 1972)
Fantasy (27 November 1972)
4 December 1972
Elstree 3 (11 December 1972)
Ghosts (18 December 1972)
Clapperboard’s Christmas Cracker (25 December 1972)
Elstree Carpentry Shop (1 January 1973)
Animals in Films (8 January 1973)
Life Stories (15 January 1973)
Comedy Crooks (22 January 1973)
The Sea (29 January 1973)
Singing Stars (5 February 1973)
Comic Strip Characters/Dennis Gifford (12 February 1973)
Writer Scot Finch (19 February 1973)
New Releases (26 February 1973)
Straight Men Singing (5 March 1973)
Stunts 2/Derek Ware (12 March 1973)
Stunts on Location/Derek Ware (19 March 1973)
Lost Horizon Special (26 March 1973)
Walt Disney 1 (2 April 1973)
Walt Disney 2 (9 April 1973)
Easter Films Preview (16 April 1973)
Biblical Films (23 April 1973)
Film Cameraman Oswald Morris 1 (30 April 1973)
Film Cameraman Oswald Morris 2 (7 May 1973)
Film Cameraman Oswald Morris 3 (14 May 1973)
Westerns (21 May 1973)
Films and Television (28 May 1973)
World War II Films (4 June 1973)
11 June 1973
Films with Social Messages (18 June 1973)
Famous Buildings in Films (25 June 1973)
Changing Screens (2 July 1973)
Adventure Stories (9 July 1973)
It’s Magic (16 July 1973)
Summer Releases (23 July 1973)
Richard Williams Animation Studios 1 (30 July 1973)
Richard Williams Animation Studios 2 (6 August 1973)
Families in Film (13 August 1973)
Early Films and Pioneers (20 August 1973)
Holiday Special (27 August 1973)
Film Firsts (3 September 1973)
Sport (10 September 1973)
Yvonne Balake – Costume Designer (17 September 1973)
Golden Age of Silent Comedy (24 September 1973)
1 October 1973
Slapstick (8 October 1973)
Monarchs in Movies (15 October 1973)
Musicals from Ordinary Stories (22 October 1973)
Great Silent Comedians (29 October 1973)
Milt Kahl – Animator (5 November 1973)
George Gershwin (12 November 1973)
Laurel and Hardy (19 November 1973)
Bill Travers (26 November 1973)
Ray Harryhausen (3 December 1973)
Take Me High Special 1 (10 December 1973)
Take Me High Special 2 (17 December 1973)
Magic and Music (24 December 1973)
Newsreels (31 December 1973)
7 January 1974
Canine Stars of the Cinema (14 January 1974)
21 January 1974
Top Two Scores (28 January 1974)
Movie Music Cars 1 (4 February 1974)
Movie Music Cars 2 (11 February 1974)
Under the Sea (18 February 1974)
Hollywood (25 February 1974)
Cinema Spies (4 March 1974)|Cinema Spies (4 March 1974)
Ballet and Dance (11 March 1974)
Cecil B De Mille and D W Griffith (18 March 1974)
Composers Richard and Robert Sherman (25 March 1974)
The Three Musketeers (1 April 1974)
Derek Ware on Location at Knebworth (8 April 1974)
Current Releases (22 April 1974)
Music Hall (29 April 1974)
Ian Whittaker – Set Decorator (6 May 1974)
Silent Greats (13 May 1974)
Horses (20 May 1974)
Gregory Peck (27 May 1974)
John Huntley (3 June 1974)
10 June 1974
17 June 1974
Lucille Ball (24 June 1974)
Series Two
2 September 1974
The Midas Touch (9 September 1974)
Film Robberies (16 September 1974)
Unearthly Film Characters (23 September 1974)
Leslie Halliwell (30 September 1974)
7 October 1974
John Huntley – Birth of the Talkies (14 October 1974)
21 October 1974
28 October 1974
Professor Popper’s Problems (4 November 1974)
Composer Roy Budd (11 November 1974)
Murder on the Orient Express Preview (18 November 1974)
Epic Sea Adventures (25 November 1974)
Trains in Films (2 December 1974)
Island at the Top of the World (9 December 1974)
Christmas Holiday Films (16 December 1974)
Christmas Clapperboard (26 December 1974)
Dennis Gifford (30 December 1974)
Flying in the Movies 1 (6 January 1975)
Flying in the Movies 2 (13 January 1975)
25th Anniversary of the British Transport Film Unit (20 January 1975)
Disaster Movies (27 January 1975)
Early Hollywood Musicals (3 February 1975)
Claude Watham (10 February 1975)
17 February 1975
The Land That Time Forgot (24 February 1975)
Tom Howard – Visual FX Wizard 1 (3 March 1975)
Tom Howard – Visual FX Wizard 2 (10 March 1975)
Easter Holiday Films (24 March 1975)
Supernatural Powers (7 April 1975)
Irwin Allen (1975)|Irwin Allen (14 April 1975)
Sir Alexander Korda 1 (21 April 1975)
Sir Alexander Korda 2 (28 April 1975)
Famous Film Comedy Teams (5 May 1975)
The Great Waldo (12 May 1975)
Wild Animals in Films (19 May 1975)
David Niven (Paper Tiger) (2 June 1975)
Leonard (9 June 1975)
Film Critic Dilys Powell (23 June 1975)
1930s Comedy Stars (30 June 1975)
Donald Duck’s 40th Anniversary (7 July 1975)
George Pal (14 July 1975)
Summer Films Preview 1 (21 July 1975)
Summer Films Preview 2 (28 July 1975)
Eastern Adventure Films (4 August 1975)
British Comedy Stars of the 1930s (11 August 1975)
Disney Films (18 August 1975)
Stiff Upper Lip! (1 September 1975)
Classic Cartoons (8 September 1975)
Hollywood Comedies of the 1930s (15 September 1975)
Sporting Scenes (22 September 1975)
British Comedy Stars of the 1930s (29 September 1975)
Shell Film Unit Works (6 October 1975)
Gerry Anderson Part 1 (13 October 1975)
Gerry Anderson Part 2 (20 October 1975)
27 October 1975
Spoof History Films (3 November 1975)
30s Tough Guys (10 November 1975)
Dickens on Film (17 November 1975)
Film Historian John Huntley (24 November 1975)
John Huntley on Background Music (1 December 1975)
Western Film Heroes (8 December 1975)
Christmas Holiday Films (15 December 1975)
Christmas Films (22 December 1975)
Christmas Holiday Films (29 December 1975)
The Bianchi Family (5 January 1976)
Sherlock Holmes 1 (12 January 1976)
Sherlock Holmes 2 (19 January 1976)
Behind the Scenes on Return of the Pink Panther (26 January 1976)
Breakheart Pass/And Then There Were None (2 February 1976)
Stars of Vaudeville (9 February 1976)
Michael Caine 1 (16 February 1976)
Michael Caine 2 (23 February 1976)
Duelling with Derek Ware 1 (1 March 1976)
Duelling with Derek Ware 2 (8 March 1976)
Bible Films (15 March 1976)
The Airship (22 March 1976)
The Slipper and the Rose 1 (29 March 1976)
The Slipper and the Rose 2 (5 April 1976)
Easter Holiday Films (12 April 1976)
Children’s Film Foundation (26 April 1976)
National Film Board of Canada (3 May 1976)
Aces High (10 May 1976)
Whitsun Holiday Films (17 May 1976)
Robin and Marian (24 May 1976)
Comedy Film Fights (7 June 1976)
Boots and Saddles Society (14 June 1976)
John Wayne (16 June 1976)
General Custer with Derek Ware (21 June 1976)
Films about Films (28 June 1976)
Science Fiction Films (5 July 1976)
Behind the Scenes on At the Earth’s Core (12 July 1976)
Rodgers, Hammerstein and Hart (19 July 1976)
Behind the Scenes on Bugsy Malone (26 July 1976)
Summer Holiday Films (2 August 1976)
Composer Ron Goodwin 1 (9 August 1976)
Composer Ron Goodwin 2 (16 August 1976)
Crime Films (23 August 1976)
Anthony Quinn 1 (6 September 1976)
Anthony Quinn 2 (13 September 1976)
Alfred Hitchcock (20 September 1976)
New Releases (27 September 1976)
Funny Sporting Scenes 1 (4 October 1976)
Funny Sporting Scenes 2 (11 October 1976)
Futuristic Films (18 October 1976)
Amateur Films 1 (25 October 1976)
Amateur Films 2 (1 November 1976)
Archery with Jim Wilcox (8 November 1976)
New Release Round Up (15 November 1976)
Pop Music in Films (22 November 1976)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (29 November 1976)
A Day at Elstree (6 December 1976)
Eisenstein (13 December 1976)
Costume Designer Julie Harris (20 December 1976)
Magic and Illusion (27 December 1976)
Holiday Clapperboard Review of 76 (3 January 1977)
Children in Films (10 January 1977)
Behind the Scenes on The Spy Who Loved Me (17 January 1977)
Pirates with Tony Howlett (24 January 1977)
Films from the Headlines (31 January 1977)
New Releases (7 February 1977)
Designer Ken Adams (14 February 1977)
Anna Neagle 1 (21 February 1977)
Anna Neagle 2 (28 February 1977)
25 Years (7 March 1977)
Early American Films (14 March 1977)
Peter Bogdanovich 1 (21 March 1977)
Peter Bogdanovich 2 (28 March 1977)
Silver Streak (4 April 1977)
Easter Holiday Films (11 April 1977)
Silver Streak 2 – Behind the Scenes (18 April 1977)
Leslie Halliwell (25 April 1977)
Rocky (2 May 1977)
Airport ’77 (9 May 1977)
Metamorphosis: Freaky Friday/The Shaggy DA (16 May 1977)
The London Experience (23 May 1977)
Gulliver’s Travels (30 May 1977)
National Film Board of Canada Cartoons (6 June 1977)
New Release Round Up (13 June 1977)
The American Depression of the 1930s (20 June 1977)
Richard Attenborough on A Bridge Too Far (27 June 1977)
Behind the Scenes on The Spy Who Loved Me (4 July 1977)
Sinbad the Sailor (11 July 1977)
Jacques Tati (18 July 1977)
Summer Film Releases (25 July 1977)
John Waller on Arms and Armour (8 August 1977)
William Goldman (15 August 1977)
Manchester Costume Exhibition with Julie Harris (22 August 1977)
10 Best Amateur Film Awards (29 August 1977)
Edward Fox (5 September 1977)
New Releases (12 September 1977)
Films About New York (19 September 1977)
Alan Frank – Horror Films (26 September 1977)
Golden Jubilee of Talking Pictures 1 (3 October 1977)
Golden Jubilee of Talking Pictures 2 (10 October 1977)
New Releases (17 October 1977)
Wolfgang Reitherman – Disney Director (24 October 1977)
Bessie Love (31 October 1977)
Films about the Foreign Legion (7 November 1977)
Bing Crosby Tribute (21 November 1977)
Leslie Halliwell (28 November 1977)
Star Wars (5 December 1977)
Peter Yates (12 December 1977)
Christmas Releases (19 December 1977)
Meath School’s Favourite Films (26 December 1977)
1977 Highlights (2 January 1978)
Films with Funfairs (9 January 1978)
Star Wars and Its Predecessors (16 January 1978)
Charlie Chaplin Tribute (23 January 1978)
Launder and Gilliat (30 January 1978)
Abba the Movie (6 February 1978)
Golden Age of Hollywood Stars (13 February 1978)
Clapperboard Film Quiz Book (20 February 1978)
The Four Feathers (27 February 1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (13 March 1978)
Easter Holiday Releases (20 March 1978)
Bank Holiday Special (27 March 1978)
3 April 1978
10 April 1978
John Huntley 1 (17 April 1978)
John Huntley 2 (24 April 1978)
The Oscars (1 May 1978)
Wombling Free (8 May 1978)
New Releases (15 May 1978)
Ballet in Films (22 May 1978)
Spring in the Movies (29 May 1978)
Heavenly Visitors (5 June 1978)
Bryan Forbes – Pinewood (12 June 1978)
Seabound Adventures (19 June 1978)
Captain Nemo (26 June 1978)
Irving Berlin (3 July 1978)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (10 July 1978)
Warlords of Atlantis (17 July 1978)
Bryan Forbes 2 (24 July 1978)
Summer Releases 1 (31 July 1978)
Summer Releases 2 (7 August 1978)
The Swarm (14 August 1978)
Glenda Jackson and Housecalls (21 August 1978)
10 Best Amateur Films of the Year (28 August 1978)
Gloria Grahame (4 September 1978)
Arthur Askey 1 (11 September 1978)
Arthur Askey 2 (18 September 1978)
New Releases (25 September 1978)
New Film Books (2 October 1978)
Pete’s Dragon (9 October 1978)
The Cat From Outer Space (16 October 1978)
Death on the Nile (23 October 1978)
Hooper (30 October 1978)
Mickey Rooney 1 (6 November 1978)
Mickey Rooney 2 (13 November 1978)
Derek Ware (20 November 1978)
The 39 Steps (27 November 1978)
History of British Film Musicals (4 December 1978)
History of British Film Musicals (11 December 1978)
Films for Christmas (18 December 1978)
Christmas Clapperboard: Flying (25 December 1978)
Review of the Year (1 January 1979)
Hollywood Stunt Flyers 1: Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman (8 January 1979)
Hollywood Stunt Flyers 2 (15 January 1979)
Holmfirth: Film Making in the North/John Huntley (22 January 1979)
Merseyside/John Huntley (29 January 1979)
New Releases (5 February 1979)
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (12 February 1979)
Bolton and Blackpool/Leslie Halliwell (19 February 1979)
Harry Watt 1 (26 February 1979)
Harry Watt 2 (5 March 1979)
Harry Watt 3 (12 March 1979)
Northern Comedy with Arthur Askey (19 March 1979)
Super Villains (26 March 1979)
Robert Morley (2 April 1979)
Easter Releases (9 April 1979)
Tarka the Otter (16 April 1979)
Lionel Jeffries 1 (23 April 1979)
Northern Films of the 50s and 60s (30 April 1979)
A Tribute to Fred Astaire (7 May 1979)
Lionel Jeffries 2 (14 May 1979)
New Releases (21 May 1979)
National Screen Service Studios (28 May 1979)
New Releases (4 June 1979)
Magic in the Movies (11 June 1979)
Puppets in Films 1 (18 June 1979)
Puppets in Films 2 (25 June 1979)
New Releases (2 July 1979)
Behind the Scenes on the Spaceman and the King (9 July 1979)
New Releases (16 July 1979)
Behind the Scenes on Arabian Adventure 1 (30 July 1979)
Behind the Scenes on Arabian Adventure 2 (6 August 1979)
Franco Zeffirelli (29 October 1979)
The Making of Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (5 November 1979)
Stan Laurel (12 November 1979)
New Releases (19 November 1979)
Early Days of the Railway/John Huntley (26 November 1979)
Behind the Scenes on the London Connection (3 December 1979)
10 Best Amateur Films of the Year (10 December 1979)
Christmas Releases (17 December 1979)
Great Art Directors (27 December 1979)
Review of the Year (31 December 1979)
William Shatner (7 January 1980)
New Releases (14 January 1980)
Early Northern Films (21 January 1980)
NW Film Archive (28 January 1980)
Richard Rodgers Tribute (4 February 1980)
Sam Hanna – Burnley Film Maker (11 February 1980)
Rising Damp/Black Jack (18 February 1980)
Samuelson’s 1 (25 February 1980)
Samuelson’s 2 (3 March 1980)
Behind the Scenes on SOS Titanic (10 March 1980)
Children’s Film Foundation (17 March 1980)
Big Screen, Little Screen (24 March 1980)
William Friese-Green (31 March 1980)
Easter Films (7 April 1980)
Behind the Scenes on Rocky II (14 April 1980)
Victorian Film Toys (21 April 1980)
George Albert Smith (28 April 1980)
Beside the Seaside (5 May 1980)
Flight into Space (12 May 1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (19 May 1980)
Palladium Film Exhibition (26 May 1980)
Clarendon Film Company 1 (2 June 1980)
Mechanical Film Stars (9 June 1980)
Clarendon Film Company 2 (16 June 1980)
Time Travellers (23 June 1980)
Films Starring Horses (30 June 1980)
New Releases (7 July 1980)
Animation of Halas and Batchelor 1 (14 July 1980)
Animation of Halas and Batchelor 2 (21 July 1980)
Last Flight of Noah’s Ark/Little Miss Marker (28 July 1980)
River Thames on Film 1 (11 August 1980)
River Thames on Film 2 (18 August 1980)
10 Best Amateur Films of the Year (25 August 1980)
Evan Lloyd (1 September 1980)
New Releases (8 September 1980)
The Halas and Batchelor Story Part Three (15 September 1980)
Peter Sellers Tribute 1 (22 September 1980)
Peter Sellers Tribute 2 (29 September 1980)
Bronco Billy (6 October 1980)
New Releases (13 October 1980)
Magnificent Seven in Space (20 October 1980)
The Elephant Man/John Hurt/Breaker Morant /Edward Woodward (3 November 1980)
1912 Disaster (10 November 1980)
24th London Film Festival (17 November 1980)
Napoleon (24 November 1980)
Superheroes (1 December 1980)
Christmas Releases (8 December 1980)
Clint Eastwood and Sandra Locke (15 December 1980)
Development of Cartoons (24 December 1980)
Review of the Year (1 January 1981)
The Dogs of War (9 January 1981)
Hawk the Slayer (16 January 1981)
The Jazz Singer (23 January 1981)
New Releases (30 January 1981)
Ricky Schroeder (6 February 1981)
Pop Singers Who Act (13 February 1981)
New Releases (20 February 1981)
The Mirror Crack’d (27 February 1981)
Private Benjamin (6 March 1981)
Richard Fleischer 1 (13 March 1981)
The Coal Miner’s Daughter (20 March 1981)
New Releases (27 March 1981)
Superman II (3 April 1981)
Chariots of Fire (10 April 1981)
Easter Releases (17 April 1981)
The Monster Club (24 April 1981)
Popeye/Charlie Chan (1 May 1981)
Special: 450th Show (8 May 1981)
Peter Ustinov (15 May 1981)
Richard Fleischer 2 (22 May 1981)
Peter Ustinov 2 (29 May 1981)
New Releases (6 June 1981)
Jack Gold (13 June 1981)
Condorman (20 June 1981)
For Your Eyes Only (27 June 1981)
Clash of the Titans (4 July 1981)
Excalibur (11 July 1981)
Time Bandits (18 July 1981)
Western Legends (25 July 1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1 August 1981)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again (8 August 1981)
Puppet Films (15 August 1981)
Lion of the Desert/Harrison Ford (22 August 1981)
Top 10 Amateur Films of the Year (29 August 1981)
Escape To Victory (5 September 1981)
Cambridge Animation Festival (12 September 1981)
Alan Alda (19 September 1981)
Michael Caine (26 September 1981)
Granada Cinema. Tooting (3 October 1981)
Honky Tonk Freeway/The Janitor (10 October 1981)
New Releases (17 October 1981)
The Fox and the Hound (24 October 1981)
History of Cartoon Films 1 (31 October 1981)
History of Cartoon Films 2 (7 November 1981)
London Film Festival (14 November 1981)
New Releases (21 November 1981)
New York and the Movies (28 November 1981)
Arthur (5 December 1981)
Philip Jenkinson (12 December 1981)
Christmas Releases (19 December 1981)
Camera Magic (24 December 1981)
Review of the Year (1 January 1982)
References
Books
- The Kaleidoscope British Television Music & Light Entertainment Guide (First Digital Edition: November 2012) pp.482-499 – episode guide
