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Call for suggestions please.

At our local film society, we're showing Nowhere Boy in a few weeks time as our annual outdoors screening. Now, to go with it, we'd like to show a few short films from the 50s/60s mainly centred on music of the period.

At which point, I'm stuck. I've recommended a few of the Free Cinema films - but they've received the thumbs down. So - any suggestions out there please? Ideally they'd be easily available for commercial hire on DVD - preferably in one collection, but we're not too fussy (depends on cost) - and British, but that is open to negotiation.

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How about Lonely Boy, the 1962 documentary short on Paul Anka, that proved highly influential on Peter Watkins when he made Privilege? So much so, New Yorker included it on their US edition of the film. (It doesn't appear on the BFI edition, though it is available to be viewed in full on the National Film Board of Canada's website here.) Even the titles are kind of similar!

It is not British (and not really the right era of music!) but how about Daybreak Express? It is available on the Criterion disc of The Horse's Mouth, apparently because it was the support feature when the Alec Guinness film was first released in New York.