... Poland Beauty Parlour, 33 minutes, no subtitles THIS was ballet, music and pictures, an impressionistic idea of a beauty salon, with a style sustained to the end on the same pitch. It had a rock opening with some girl dancers in a sort of masked ball setting and the dance routines were very stylish indeed. Dress, sets and lighting were extremely well used and the dramatic tempo was held all ...

... Finland Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 36 minutes, English subtitles THE blurb said. What is jazz musici an's dream? That Rave the show away for this was a simple pil grimage to New Orleans. The idea was to show the Downtown Dixie Tigers, a jazz group, all but one of whom also had a profession, looking forward to going to the great jazz occasion. (The dentist in fact used jazz ...

... Roumania This Is The Way, 30 minutes, no subtitles THIS Roumanian film looked as though it was going to be another travelogue from eastern Europe but it had several nice touches that were recognised by the professionals from the UK who sat through it. It was a look at folklore, the seasons, and youth set to music. It looked at the countryside, in all its moods and finally ended with the Black ...

... France (TF 1) Showmachine, 25 minutes, no subtitles THIS was the first programme to be seen in category C, for innovatory programmes. A little robot with flashing lights is the centre of atten tion for performers crowding round waiting to hear what it wants them to do. It squawks and the show quickly launched into a rock number with a group. This lasted for five minutes before the next number, ...

... Bulgaria FSB No Stop, 23 minutes, no subtitles THE group featured in this musical were formed in the record factory where they all work. They per formed funky and reggae pop music on electronic instruments and it was cheerful enough although the pro ducer said the words were all philo sophical and poetic. The best sequence came first, a stop-motion dance timed to the music. It was followed by ...

... Belgium Hands, 24 minutes HANDS, fingers, gloves and a whole range of simple accessories were used in this programme to illustrate life, from Adam and Eve onwards, and show people's changing attitudes. There was hardly any dia logue and the movement and music had to indicate everything, which they did quite effectively. Using cloth, the hands were made to look like people. Young man and woman ...

... Switzerland The Apple, 28 minutes BACK to Adam and Eve again, this time with an allegory with no speaking and little music. Just before this pantomime, however we got some primordial images set to music; this became leaves, a man and woman in green cloth shaped like leaves, as it became apparent. They strip off the leaves and are in green skin suits. The woman tries to plug the head of the ...

... Italy Tilt Chromakey Follies, 34 minutes, no subtitles THE last in a seven-part series six of which were devoted to international disco stars and the seventh to ballet, so our official information told us. Well, this show took a look at Louis Armstrong, the Clown, Rudolph Valentino and Superman, using choreography and electronic effects. It had a jazzy opening with a blonde surrounded by a ...

... Hungary Schooltime Blues, 15 minutes, no subtitles SIX episodes of similar length were made in this series in which the performers celebrate what the pro ducer called their maturity exam, continued on next page continued from previous page alias school leaving. All the instal ments in the series used the same technique which we think of as under cranking or frame shooting and then inserting ...

... Austria The Crazy Horror Show, 27 minutes, American voice over A CHAP sitting at a news desk dressed like Frankenstein's monster reads out some news headlines and the sketches follow from that. These Horror TV sketches began with the 97th part of a series on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, although all we saw was Snow White trying to boil an apple in poison and subse quently being chased over ...

... Soviet Union Once There Lived a Tuner, 51 minutes, English voice over A PIANO tuner who has dreams about conducting was the subject of this leisurely programme. Music wakes him up in the morning and, still dreaming, he falls out of bed. He conducts his breakfast and sets off to work smartly dressed with his tools in a violin case. He works for a Diano tuning and rental firm and he goes to the ...

... Great Britain /LWT) It'll Be Alright on the Night-2, 50 minutes AFTER the previous sad little Rus sian tale, delegates relaxed and en joyed the clips presented by Denis Norden. There really hadn't been much to laugh out loud about and this was a most welcome change. A pity the British didn't have more entries, said an east German to us afterwards; now there's a compli ment for you. ...