The Harry Cox and Sam Larner film was made by the BBC and produced by Charles Parker, so it's copyright to them. Much as I'd love to see a copy on everybody's DVD shelf, I can't imagine they'd ever bother releasing it. The Walter Pardon film was made by John Cohen and may be available from him.

Beyond that there's very little video material of traditional musicians and singers from Britain or Ireland, although RTÉ (I think) have released some rather stilted performances. I remember watching them a few years ago and getting very unexcited.

The situation is slightly better where US performers are concerned. Sebastapol, Stefan Grossman's enterprise has released a number of DVDs/videos of old timey musicians. Some of them were recorded at the Newport folk festival and some others are taken from a tv series which Pete Seeger presented back in the late '60s.

The End of an Old Song, John Cohen's film of singers from Big Laurel, North Carolina has recently been repackaged, along with a wonderful CD of the same singers called Dark Holler; Smithsonian Folkways.

Beyond that, no, there isn't an awful lot to get excited about. Personally, I'm still smarting at the appalling way the traditional singers were marginalised in Festival; Murray Lerner's film of Newport, which was shown on British tv a couple of weeks ago.