Eight years ago, I had what I called the First Elisberg Industries International Film Festival. It used a compendium of videos of an all-star cast production of The Wizard of Oz done live on TBS. A few years later, I did a second Festival, with the musical Fiorello! Since then, I’ve wanted to do a third and taken tentative steps for that, looking for the right show – but we can push those plans aside because something else came up to take its place. And boy, howdy, is this special, a real treasure. It all came up accidentally, after recently re-watching the Kennedy Center Honors presentation for Lerner and Loewe, which I posted yesterday. I started doing some research and by chance struck pure gold. And it all centers on their musical., Camelot. For now the Fest should last for eight episodes, but I should add that I’m still finding new material, so there might be some late additions. However, we begin it tonight. Before getting to the treasure find itself, though, we’ll start first with this video below that’s special and wonderful in its own right. So, let’s consider it an Overture. Here then begins the Third Elisberg Industries Film Festival. This first video is a 10-minute piece with most of the principles from the original 1960 Broadway production of Camelot talking about the show during rehearsals, intercut with a few short sequences from TV appearances at the time. It’s extremely enjoyable.
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