Momma Don't Allow

This lively Free Cinema short captures a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club, where teenagers jive to trad jazz. Funded by the BFI Experimental Film Fund, it was filmed over the course of nine Saturdays by Karel Reisz, then programmer of the National Film Theatre, and a young BBC television direct...

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Other Authors: Infobase,, British Film Institute.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : The British Film Institute, [1956]
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (21 min., 15 sec)) : sound.
Series: Free Cinema Collection.
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Summary: This lively Free Cinema short captures a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club, where teenagers jive to trad jazz. Funded by the BFI Experimental Film Fund, it was filmed over the course of nine Saturdays by Karel Reisz, then programmer of the National Film Theatre, and a young BBC television director called Tony Richardson.
Item Description: Originally released by The British Film Institute, 1956.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 30, 2019.
Rehearsing at the Public House (3:58); Wood Green Jazz Club (8:37); Chris Barber Jazz Band (8:14); Credits: Momma Don't Allow (0:12);
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This lively Free Cinema short captures a night out at the Wood Green Jazz Club, where teenagers jive to trad jazz. Funded by the BFI Experimental Film Fund, it was filmed over the course of nine Saturdays by Karel Reisz, then programmer of the National Film Theatre, and a young BBC television director called Tony Richardson.
9 - 12, Academic/AP.
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Closed-captioned.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (21 min., 15 sec)) : sound.
Format: Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience: 9 - 12, Academic/AP.
Access: Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.