Tempo(1961–1968)

Episode 1

The Artist in France

Episode 2

A look at modern architecture in Britain including interviews with the critic Iain Nairn and the architects Frederick Gibberd and Hubert Bennett.

The Artist at Work

Tempo visits France for a film about the abstract artist Graham Sutherland who is seen at work in his studio.

The Negro Spiritual

Analysis of the Hero

The author of the James Bond books, Ian Fleming, talks to Dan Farson.

The New Glossy Magazines

The Spoof Prima Donna

The Man with the Moon

A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose – But Is It Art?

Annie Ross

Art from Australia

Lions Led by Donkeys

Dark Descent

An attempt to explore the television technique in relation to modern ballet.

The Mark of Feae

How artists bring terror into their pictures.

The Life I Sing About

The Saltire in the Wind

Mods and Rockers

Mods and Rockers is a dance created by Peter Darrell for the Western Theatre Ballet based on the music of the Beatles.

Information

The old idea of a fixed, unchanging world has been thrown out. In today's world of information, can the artist provide a crucial early warning system of coming changes?

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is.. Good..? Bad..? Is life today too hectic and rushed? Does nostalgia close one's eye to the present?

Take a Simple Action and Look at It

An attempt to explain and visualise the experience of a person undergoing an LSD trip. The film uses repetition and changes to audio and visual perception via avant garde techniques.

Performer and Composer: Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven

Performer and Composer: George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Performer and Composer: Gervase de Peyer on Brahms

Performer and Composer: Vlado Perlemuter on Ravel

Performer and Composer: Janet Baker on Schumann

Contemporary Drama: Waiting for Godot

The Actor and the Role: Irene Worth

The Actor and the Role: Edith Evans

The Actor and the Role: Donald Pleasence

The Actor and the Role: Sybil Thorndike

The Actor and the Role: Michael Hordern

Michael Hordern stars as the exiled Prospero, who lives on a desolate island with his daughter Miranda. When his usurping brother Antonio sails by, Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm that wrecks the ship and torments the survivors, including the King of Naples and Antonio, thus changing all of their lives.

The Actor and the Role: Diane Cilento – Miss Julie

Look Back at Tomorrow

Lee Strasberg

Boss Guitar

The Knack

Successful Failure

The Title Makers

Tempo visits the booming film title making industry, where some have said that the titles are now a lot more interesting than the films they introduce.

Profile No. 1: Harold Pinter

Playwright Harold Pinter talks about his background and influences in a documentary that also includes extracts from The Homecoming with the original Aldwych Theatre cast.

Profile No. 2: Jean-Luc Godard

Profile No. 3: Michael Tippett

Profile No. 4: Charles Eames

Profile No. 5: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Profile No. 6: Orson Welles

A Tale of Two Talents

Contrasting the professional life of Welsh pop singer Tom Jones who shot to fame last year with Canadian-born modern ballet dancer Lynne Seymour who performs with the Royal Ballet Company.

A Guided Tour of Zero Mostel

An interview with actor/comedian Zero Mostel on the set of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'.

Entertainers: Theatre

You've Got a Nerve

The evolution of London's community of street musicians.

Entertainers: Comedians

Entertainers: Jazz

A profile of jazz musician Duke Ellington.

Tativille

An interview with French comedian and director Jacques Tati on the set of his latest film 'Playtime'.

Blood, Sweat & Champagne

Jazz in Wonderland

At EMI Studios in London, Tempo films the pianist Stan Tracey as he works on a new jazz suite interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

The Offenders

A look at satirical magazines 'Krokodil' (USSR), 'Le Canard Enchaine' (France) and 'Private Eye' (UK).

The Image Wizards

Awards presented by the Design and Art Directors Association.

Bauhaus

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art