ATV Today: 07.02.1966: Kidderminster Youth Club

Summary

Lionel Hampden meets the Mayor of Kidderminster who has opened a youth club in the cellar of his house.

Year:

1966

Duration:

0:07:07

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see Lionel Hampden arriving at a large house. He walks inside and is led to a basement where teenagers are dancing to a live band (Cliff Ward and the Cruisers). After several shots of the teenagers dancing we cut to a room where Charles Talbot, the Mayor of Kidderminster, is lecturing a group of young people about travel, Lionel then interviews the mayor and his wife Pam about their youth club project. They explain that they are happy for the teenagers to hold meetings and parties and that it grew out of a youth exchange program with the town of Husum in West Germany which is twinned with Kidderminster. Finally we see a group of young people singing a German folk song led by Talbot who is playing guitar.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Music removed from version shown on the website (a cover of 'It's Alright' originally written by Curtis Mayfield for the Impressions and performed here by Cliff Ward and the Cruisers). The group's leader had more success in the 1970s under his full name of Clifford T. Ward.