News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

495

Date Released

21 Jun 1964

Date recorded

22 May 1964

Length of issue (in feet)

710

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Mersey Sound

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Liverpool - and a Mersey sound that has nothing to do with ships’ sirens. We are concerned with the pop music that has become [the] No 1 industry in this city, as incongruous as the soot on the classical buildings there. We meet the new beat generation - girls with short hair and boys with long - and we invade their "cathedral", The Cavern, where the Mersey sound first broke out. There’s a competition in progress to find the top "beat" group of tomorrow and we go dancing and swinging, yelling our heads off as the three finalists out of a thousand entrants vie one another for the crown. The groups come from Manchester, Sidcup and Berkhamsted. We tunnel our way out of the hot basement, wondering whether this is the sound by which this Anglo-Irish port, long-famed for its sea shanties, will be remembered by posterity. [Performers include the Ko-Dells, the Jinks, the Drovers and the Mersey Beats.]

Keywords

Music and dance; Youth

Locations

Liverpool; England

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

672

Story extras:

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