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Omnibus

Season 1 Episode 19: The Charm of Dynamite: Abel Gance

A profile of one of the cinema's greatest revolutionaries and orators, the Frenchman Abel Gance, who made his first film in 1909 and whose techniques in the 1920s helped to create a cinema that was unique, grandiose and unashamedly...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Everybody's Expo

1. Everybody's Expo

Aired: Oct 13, 1967

The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of a...

Episode 5 East of Bedlam

5. East of Bedlam

Aired: Nov 22, 1967

A look back at Victorian and Edwardian melodramas from the past, by writer an...

Episode 6 Jacqueline

6. Jacqueline

Aired: Dec 8, 1967

A documentary recording Jacqueline du Pré playing the Elgar Cello Concerto wi...

Episode 8 Dante's Inferno

8. Dante's Inferno

Aired: Dec 15, 1967

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti...

Info about Omnibus

Seasons: 22

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, Music, Biography