Film Into Radio
HE title "Gilbert and Sullivan-the Story of the Film" was a modest one; in fact, there was almost a suggestion of All Care but No Responsibility. Those responsible need not have worried: there was nothing in this film biography to jar the sensibilities of listeners reared in the best traditions of BBC documentary. It was, moreover, a splendid programme in its own right. One expected the music to be superbwhat was less expected was. the satisfactory translation into radio of shots presumably taken direct from the film
(the scene where Sullivan shuts down the window on the German band playing Iolanthe in order to concentrate better on his letter to Gilbert dissolving the partnership; the final scene where Gilbert walks along the corridors of Buckingham Palace to receive his knighthood). I never had the feeling I often get from these film-to-radio programmes of being a patron at a third-sitting of supper for whom the bottom the trifle bowl has been painstakingly scraped. , ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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165Film Into Radio New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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