Jack Elliott of Birtley

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 17 Oct 22 - 07:20 PM

https://youtu.be/L4EkHL_zUms?t=25s

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 22 - 01:21 PM

it's now on youtube

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 04:43 PM

Filmography Of Philip Donnellan
1968-Death of a Miner

Charlotte (the view from Ma and Pa's piano stool)

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM

A DVD copy was made last year and screened to a small audience on Tyneside. It is the Death of a Miner, and featured young versions of a number of people who were in the audience, and reacting to their younger selves, which was entertaining for the rest of us. The Elliott family are very proud of it.

Paws

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 07:09 AM

Thanks Dave. That's definitely it.

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 06:54 AM

Yes that was the title of the programme and it was screened in early as part of the Sunday religious broadcast on BBC one Sunday evening in either 1967 or early 1968. Certainly much of the footage was filmed at The Three Tuns, Birtley in early 1967. I was there on the night but I don't feature in the recording.

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 06:18 AM

The occasion was a concert called Folksound of Britain which was held on the 4th June 1965 at the Festival Hall, and I think his "stumblin'" had more to do with a spinal injury than anything else.

However, the question I'm trying to solve doesn't relate to the Festival Hall concert but to the title of Philip Donnellan's BBC tv documentary on Jack Elliott. Does anybody know what it was called?

Subject: RE: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 05:42 AM

I DO know that at the Folk Sound of Britain concert in ?1965? Jack had a plaster cast on one ankle , and introduced himself as " NOT Rambling Jack Elliott , but Stumbling Jack !"

Subject: Jack Elliott of Birtley
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 05:31 AM

A friend of mine has just told me that she's being sent a DVD copy of a documentary about Jack Elliott. That's north east England Jack Elliott BTW, not Rambling Jack Elliott.

The documentary is called Death of a Miner, and I feel sure this must be a copy of the classic BBC programme which Philip Donnellan made of Jack in the 1960s. Naturally I'm as excited as hell about the prospect of being able to see it again after all these years. Can anyone remember whether this actually was the title of the Donnellan programme?