positive action

Positive Action
Date
1984
Duration
00:26:20
Film Type
Colour / Sound
Production
Professional
Genre
Documentary
Summary
Atmozphier, a dance group from Birmingham, have been awarded a grant from West Midlands County Council. This film shows their struggle for success and attempts to add singing to their talents.
Description
The film introduces the dance group Atmozphier and uses voice over to explain that they have received a grant from West Midlands County Council to help them on the way to success in performing arts. During fly-on-the-wall style scenes the group members (Edmundo John, Cornell John, Angela Alexander and Phil Freeman) talk about the attitudes of the media which included claims that they were being financed by the rates. They also watch themselves appearing on Central News and are critical of they way they have been depicted. Interview with Arthur Taylor of Coventry City Council who is critical of local authority money being spent on a dance group. Vox pops with members of the public about the issue. The group are then seen rehearsing at the Birmingham Athletic Institute. They are then seen talking about their early lives; how they got into dancing and how racism at school which pushed them into sport rather than academia led them to their current career. Later in a room at the Metropole Hotel they discuss with their Personal Assistant Alison Patterson the future of another group member, Helen who has failed to turn up to shows. Atmozphier are next seen performing a robotic dance routine at a corporate event for the Binks firm who produce industrial robots. Interview with the group's manager Jim Roberts. Atmozphier are keen to diversify and have become involved with a German record producer Zeus Held who has a studio in France. The plan is for the group to write lyrics and sing to backings supplied by Held. Atmozphier drive to the studio passing through Birmingham and Paris on the way. They are then seen in Held's studio singing a cover of the Beatles' song 'Drive My Car' as well as another song (Ghetto City (?)). They chat in a Parisian café and are enthusiastic about their music career. In contrast the group are next seen back in the Midlands giving dance lessons at the Holyhead Leisure Centre in Handsworth. They are keen to learn new techniques and are also shown attending a ballet class with tutor Robert Edwards. Finally a short excerpt from their new show 'Positive Action' is seen in which they bring together their dancing with their newly developed singing skills.
Credits
Cameraman - Ian HollandsSound Recordist - Frank MintonSound Mixer - Richard KingResearcher - Brian WalshProduction Assistant - Margaret BookerFilm Editor - Paul BrownProducer - Jim MansonExecutive Producer - Brian LewisDirector - Eric Mival
Production Company
Central Television
Notes
Production number 1949/84. Central master tape 1844 H6.
Tags
Dance, Music, Performing Arts
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