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Philip Donnellan documentaries
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Subject: Philip Donnellan folk music documentaries From: Jehane Date: 03 Feb 19 - 09:31 AM I think it's well known that the Radio Ballad films are available on YouTube. There are also the four episodes of The Good Old Way (1983). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0hGLcXUFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTJikm_gUYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OycVtRBeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38Bc9f9xjI and Death of a Miner (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4EkHL_zUms The Other Music (1981) was mentioned on another thread a while ago, and doesn't appear to be currently available. I would also love to see this! Does anyone have a copy? https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b752841f8 |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jehane Date: 09 Feb 19 - 01:41 PM Here's a summary for each: 'The Good Old Way' featrues The Watersons, Martin Carthy, Frankie Armstrong, Alison MacMorland & Peta Webb and Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger. 'Death of a Miner' is about Jack Eliot of Birtley. 'The Other Music' chronicles the folk song revival from 1945-1981 from its roots in the British tradition with Frankie Armstrong, Ian Campbell Group, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, A.L. Lloyd, Alan Lomax, Ewan McColl, & Peggy Seeger, The Watersons, Steeleye Span etc. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Sandy Date: 01 Mar 19 - 05:04 AM Thanks for posting these links, The Good Old Way was new to me. Although I didn't get into folk music until the nineties, I really like the early revival singers. For me, this was a very interesting insight into that era, their outlooks, politics etc. as well as great footage of them plying their trade. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Dave Sutherland Date: 01 Mar 19 - 05:57 AM Apparently "The Other Music" was shown at Whitby Festival last year at, I believe, a Doc Rowe workshop. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 01 Mar 19 - 08:37 PM Here's the Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Donnellan But a search on BFI Player lists nothing at all. And thats for one of the most acclaimed documentary producers at the BBC. How easily do folks forget. Appalling. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 01 Mar 19 - 08:41 PM More here: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/500920/ ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jim Carroll Date: 02 Mar 19 - 03:08 AM Donnellan made some superb films using folk song - one of the very best (which was withdrawn by a panicky BBC) being 'The Irishmen' - an account of Navvies working on digging the Victoria Line, in London WE attended a public showing a year ago at the Dublin Trad-Fest - every bit as powerful as it was half a century earlier His two part 'Gone for a Soldier' potted history of the British Army, led to questions being asked in The House and calls for him to be imprisoned in The Tower Others, 'Before the Mast' (the Merchant Navy) and 'Passage West' left indelible memories and produced some of the finest of MacColl's songs - Tunnel Tigers, Farewell to Ireland, Shellback, Indeed, I Would.... ' At 'The Irishman' showing, Philip's daughter described how her father had to ship out copies of his films to friends in case the BBC pulped them, which, it appears, they did Philip, like his friend, Charles Parker, became a major embarrassment to the Media hierarchy; a great man and a pleasure to have met Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 02 Mar 19 - 04:26 PM Two of Donnellan's 'forgotten' films are: • Joe the Chainsmith (Philip Donnellan, 1958) • The Colony (Philip Donnellan, 1964) Both are available on the BFI DVD set "Visions of Change Volume 1: BBC 1951-1967 Visions of Change Volume 1: BBC 1951-1967" https://shop.bfi.org.uk/visions-of-change-volume-one-the-bbc.html ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 03 Mar 19 - 07:02 AM The Radio Ballads are discussed here: https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2014/03/the-shoals-of-herring/ https://archive.org/details/FreeUniversityDay5_5 CJB |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 03 Mar 19 - 07:04 AM So the Moot Point is where is ... The Other Music' which chronicles the folk song revival from 1945-1981 from its roots in the British tradition with Frankie Armstrong, Ian Campbell Group, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, A.L. Lloyd, Alan Lomax, Ewan McColl, & Peggy Seeger, The Watersons, Steeleye Span etc. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 03 Mar 19 - 07:17 AM Another fishing doco. featuring Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger ... https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-fishermen-1959-online ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 19 - 07:25 AM BBC Inside Out - Mini-doco. on Donnellan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpjgu-5nOXw ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 19 - 10:57 AM More details of his output are here: http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10855/philip-donnellan ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Irishmen Date: 04 Mar 19 - 11:48 AM Here's the "Irishmen - in exile" - documenting the Irish labourers who built the Victoria Line in the 1960s. Download Link 1 file Irishmen.mpg Message The Irishmen - documenting the role of the Irish in the building of the Victoria Line. Prod. Philip Donnellan. ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Soldlier Date: 05 Mar 19 - 07:51 AM Here's the film 'Gone to be a Soldier' - Part 1 & Part 2 Download Link 1 Download Link 2 Details http://www.pebblemill.org/blog/memories-of-philip-donnellan-peter-poole/ ==== I'll leave others to upload these and Irishmen to YouTube!! ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Irishmen Date: 05 Mar 19 - 12:26 PM Lawrence has found a article in the Irish Independent ... Independent ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST Date: 05 Mar 19 - 12:33 PM Irish Independent ... Search for BBC's 1960s 'Irishmen' Ken Sweeney January 20 2010 5:00 AM IRISH railway workers in Britain who were featured in a 1960s BBC documentary are being tracked down by the broadcaster. 'The Irishmen' was an hour-long documentary special made by Philip Donnellan in 1965 following Irish railway workers in London. Irish immigrants described their horror at leaving home and travelling to urban Britain in the documentary. BBC management refused to broadcast 'The Irishmen' after it was completed in 1965. The daughter of acclaimed BBC documentary maker Donnellan, Philippa, who lives in Dublin, said her father was told at the time that the public "wouldn't be interested" in the work. "They [the BBC] thought the English public wouldn't understand it and wouldn't be interested in seeing a film about people working," she said. But Mr Donnellan remained working with the BBC to make more television documentaries on the lives of working-class people. Following his death in 1999, the BBC began a reappraisal of Mr Donnellan's work and the broadcaster will travel to Dublin this week to interview his widow Jill and Philippa. "I think the BBC are now recognising dad's work because times and attitudes have changed towards minority groups and the BBC are starting to see the historical and social importance of what he achieved," said Philippa. A special edition of the BBC programme 'Inside Out', on Philip Donnellan, will be broadcast next month. Inside Out Anyone who has any kind of information about the lives of the characters who took part in the documentary 'The Irishmen' can send an email to liz.roberts@bbc.co.uk ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jim Carroll Date: 05 Mar 19 - 03:01 PM Many, many thanks for that Guest We once had a very strange experience with the film 'The Irishmen', a copy of which we have owned since Philip gave it to us Our neighbour, Roisín White, used to organise a weekend visit of two fine Sean Nós singers, Josie Sean Jacn acDonnchada and Johnny Marin Leary, both from Carna in Connemara - glorious weekends in February where we could sit and listen to two great singers in comfort without the usual crowds Josie featured in the film, The Irishman as a link between Ireland and London and was used in the publicity when the film was made. Our local trad music fanatic publican heard we had the film and asked us to bring it to his bar which was fitted with a huge pull-down screen and projector - We agreed and took the film down to find an anxiously waiting small crowd - without the singers The publican put the film on and it had reached the scene where a young Josie was bidding farewell to his by tyhen long-dead parents, when Josie walked through the door to be confronted with himself sitting at the kitchen table with his father and mother He stopped at the door - poleaxed - he said it was if someone had hit him in the chest with a pick-handle Jim |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jim Carroll Date: 06 Mar 19 - 08:56 AM Meant to mention another film, I think it was made by Philip, Ewan, Peg and Charles Perker were certainly involved; 'The Singer and the Song' separate interviews with Harry Cox and Sam Larner (they never met) We used to have a DVD copy, but can't lay my hands on it We do have a VCR copy but haven't the facilities to convert it and maintain the not great quality. I'd love to get my hands on it again Jim |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Iains Date: 06 Mar 19 - 09:54 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqsqnKpwEo Harry Cox and Sam Larner |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,Guest - CJB Date: 06 Mar 19 - 10:34 AM Interviewed by Charles Parker at their homes in 1962. From the Pete Kennedy collection. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: StephenH Date: 08 Mar 19 - 09:22 PM Thanks so much for posting the link to "The Irishmen" Just finished watching it - bloody brilliant! |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jim Carroll Date: 09 Mar 19 - 02:37 AM Great to see Philp's films being appreciated after all these years - pity his employers didn't feel the same way about him (or his friend, Charles Parker) The greatest loss to British culture was their being treated the way they were by the BBC Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,SteveY Date: 06 May 20 - 02:37 PM The Other Music Anybody have an old video recording of this? I'd love to see this again. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Hagman Date: 06 May 20 - 08:31 PM Anyone in a position to re-upload links to "Irishmen" and "Gone To Be A Soldier"? Would be most grateful..... |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: cnd Date: 06 May 20 - 08:46 PM I can't help with any of the requests from the web, but perhaps either of these links will point you in the right direction post-lockdown? The Philip Donnellan Archive Project The Friends of Philip Donnellan (archived copy) |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Hagman Date: 06 May 20 - 10:58 PM Cheers, cnd. Great resources.... |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Jim Carroll Date: 08 May 20 - 06:07 AM "Irishmen" and "Gone To Be A Soldier" We have copies of both and others if you need them I also have a file of MacColl's Irish songs in full made for the Irishmen a filmed obituary for Phillip by TG4 Phillip and Charles Parker were friends and a heroes of ours When 'The Irishmen' (which was never publicly broadcast) was shown in Dublin a few years ago Phil and Jill's daughter, Polly described how, when her father completed each film he immediately shipped a copy abroad because he suspected that the BBC would destroy all copies Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: Dave Sutherland Date: 09 May 20 - 04:19 PM Regarding "The Other Music" it was mentioned on here some years ago (I think in connection with BBC's Folk Britannia) that there was only one copy in circulation. Possibly that was the one shown at Whitby in 2018 at one of Doc Rowe's workshops. I too would like to see it again (it was broadcast in 1981 and VCRs were in their infancy then) as near the begining I am seen replying to a chap, now a good friend of mine, who was making the claim that folk music wasn't political. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST Date: 27 Aug 20 - 09:49 PM I'm looking to find the documentary of The Irishmen by Philip Donnellan as I have seen that my Dad was in a clip on the recent Irish in Britain programme. I've searched online but can't find anywhere to buy the download or archive. If anyone knows how to get a copy I'd be very grateful. Many Thanks Tracey Hurst |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: The Sandman Date: 28 Aug 20 - 03:26 AM best to contact jim carroll, if you contact me at dickmilesseventyseven atgmail.com , i can pass on his details to you. |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,CJB666 Date: 28 Aug 20 - 07:22 AM Jim has been very generous with his recordings. I'm sure its possible to find these programmes online at some point. Please compile a list of films folks wish to see below: |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,CJB666 Date: 28 Aug 20 - 07:50 AM Films are here too: https://shop.bfi.org.uk/visions-of-change-volume-1-bbc-1951-1967.html THE FILMS Disc One: • Henry Moore (John Read, 1951) • Eye to Eye: Night in the City (Denis Mitchell, 1957) • Tonight: Song of the Valley (John Schlesinger, 1957) • Joe the Chainsmith (Philip Donnellan, 1958) • Eye on Research: Test Flight (Philip Daly, Tom Millett, 1959) • Morning in the Streets (Denis Mitchell, Roy Harris, 1959) • Between Two Rivers (Dennis Potter, 1960) Disc Two: • Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel (Ken Russell, 1962) • The Colony (Philip Donnellan, 1964) • Dispute: Round 1 (Jack Gold, Ken Ashton, Paul Watson, 1967) • Dispute: Round 2 (Jack Gold, Ken Ashton, Paul Watson, 1967) ==== https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e3456ef ==== Here's a Filmography from the BFI: Filmography 1992 Black and White in Colour Television, Memory, Race, 1936-1968 Producer 1991 Philip Donnellan Interview Interviewee 1991 Philip Donnellan Black and White in Colour (Rushes) Reel 55 Interviewee 1991 Philip Donnellan/John Hopkins Black and White in Colour (Rus Hes) Reel 56 Interviewee 1988 The Queen's Peace Director 1988 The Beauty Queens Director 1988 A Taste of Prison Director 1988 No Place for Punishment? Director 1988 What Is Justice? Director 1988 Speaking to Each Other On-screen participant 1985 A New Tree in Tolpuddle Director 1984 HGV Transport Drivers, Northampton [Director] / Producer 1984 Professional Footballers, Stoke City Football Club [Director] / Producer 1984 Staff and Supporters Occupying Thornton View Hospital, Bradf Ord. [Director] / Producer 1984 Blind and Disabled Workers, Scottish Baille Press, Edinburgh [Director] / Producer 1984 Dismissed Workers from Lefray Toys, Aberbeeg, South Wales [Director] / Producer 1984 Production Workers, Peek Frean Biscuits, Bermondsey, London [Director] / Producer 1984 YTS Trainees, Tyne North Engineering Centre, Wallsend [Director] / Producer 1984 Night-shift Workers, Kestrel Marine, Dundee [Director] / Producer 1984 Television Viewers, Staffordshire [Director] / Producer 1984 Redundant Trawlermen, Hull [Director] / Producer 1983 Firemen in White Watch, Ascot Drive Fire Station, Derby [Director] / Producer 1983 Tele-ad Salesgirls, 'express and Star', Wolverhampton [Director] / Producer 1983 Unemployed Asian Workers in Bradford [Director] / Producer 1983 Musicians in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra [Director] / Producer 1983 Shipyard Blacksmiths at Sunderland Shipbuilders [Director] / Producer 1983 Agricultural Workers from Farms around Northleach, Gloucestershire [Director] / Producer 1983 Unemployed Car Workers from the De Lorean Factory in West Belfast [Director] / Producer 1983 Women Production Workers, Brays Engineering, Leeds [Director] / Producer 1983 The Good Old Way Executive Producer 1982 Telecommunications Workers at Gec, Coventry. [Director] / Producer 1982 Underground and Surface Workers at Hem Heath Colliery, Stoke -on-trent [Director] / Producer 1982 Heavy Vehicle Builders at ERF, Sandbach, Cheshire. [Director] / Producer 1982 Unemployed Building Workers in Liverpool [Director] / Producer 1982 Tobacco Workers at Wills No 2 Factory, Bristol [Director] / Producer 1982 Engineering Workers on Strike at Laurence Scott, Manchester [Director] / Producer 1982 Too Much Reality? Producer 1981 The Other Music Producer 1980 Gone for a Soldier [Director] / Produced by 1980 Gone for a Soldier Part 1 The Professionals [Director] / Produced by 1980 Gone for a Soldier Part 2 The Citizen Soldiers [Director] / Produced by 1980 Stories and Songs of a Scots Family Group Producer 1978 Only Yesterday Director 1978 The Pilgrimage of Ti-jean [Director] / Producer 1978 City on the Border Director 1977 Pure Radio [Director] / Produced by / Written by presenter 1977 Half a Smile from Stoke (Item) Producer 1976 Art - To a Degree Producer 1975 The Dream of Freedom Director / Producer 1975 The Awakening Director / Producer 1975 Passage West - The Awakening Producer 1974 The Big Hewer (YouTube) Adapted and produced by 1974 The Fight for Shelton Bar Producer 1973 The Fight Game (YouTube) [Director] / Producer / Adaptation 1972 The Fisherman Remembers Director 1972 The Shoals of Herring (YouTube) Producer / Adaptation 1971 Where Do I Stand?[07/07/71] Producer 1971 Where Do I Stand?[16/06/71] Producer 1971 Where Do I Stand?[09/06/71] Producer 1971 Where Do I Stand?[23/06/71] Producer 1971 Where Do I Stand?[30/06/71] Producer 1971 Before the Mast Producer / Compiler 1969 Seaways Director / Narrator 1969 Where Do We Go from Here? Director / Producer 1969 Strangers in a Town Producer 1968 Death of a Miner [Director] / Producer 1967 The Independence of the Blind Directed by / Produced by / By 1967 The Enclosed World of the Blind Producer 1966 The Abbey of the English Director / Script 1966 The Staffordshire Rebels Producer 1965 The Fortress Director / Producer 1965 Harry Watton Alderman Director / Producer 1965 House of Friends Director / Producer 1965 The Irishmen An Impression of Exile Director / Producer 1965 The Last Refuge Producer 1965 John Maddin Architect Producer 1965 Sir Alfred Owen Industrialist Producer 1965 Brian Walden Member of Parliament Producer 1965 Frank Owens Newspaper Editor Producer 1965 Sydney Dunn Bishop Producer 1964 The Colony Directed by / Produced by 1964 The Long Journey Director / Producer 1964 The School Producer 1964 The Factory Producer 1964 The Beginning Producer 1963 The Proud African A Portrait of Nkrumah of Ghana Producer 1962 Nehru - Man of Two Worlds Director / Producer 1962 T.E. Lawrence 1888-1935 Producer 1961 Sunderland Oak Directed by / Written by 1961 Men of Corby Directed by / Written by 1960 The White Country Director 1960 Coventry Kids Director / Script 1959 The Steel Goddess Producer 1958 Joe the Chainsmith [Director] / Producer / Written by 1953 We Make 'em Proud 1694-1953 Presenter ==== |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: The Sandman Date: 28 Aug 20 - 12:03 PM cjb Jim was generous with his time his knowledge and helpfulness was not appreciated by those in power on this forum |
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Subject: RE: Philip Donnellan documentaries From: GUEST,CJB666 Date: 28 Aug 20 - 05:11 PM WTF - "Jim was generous with his time his knowledge and helpfulness" TO ME certainly - for which I am very grateful. Great guy - very helpful. |
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