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Momma Don't Allow

BFI titles • Documentary, Music, UR

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.

Tags
Jazz music (1950- ), Teenagers, Popular dance, Clubs (social organisations)
Cast
The Chris Barber Band with
Crew
Karel Reisz director
Tony Richardson director

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