
High Definition
Twelve films from The Baim Collection are available on Sky ARTS in high definition. (Sky Arts 2 channel 245; Sky Arts 2HD channel 256)
Starting the Sky ARTS "Swinging Sixties" season, the Baim films SWINGING UK and UK SWINGS AGAIN have been extensively restored by The Baim Collection using Ascent Media's Soho Film Lab and 142 Wardour Street facility. For the first time the films are available in high definition. The films were made for cinema audiences and have never been broadcast in their entirety on television - until now. The full list of Baim titles that will be seen in HD on Sky ARTS is:
Date of release | TITLE | Minutes | Note |
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15 May 1959 | Floating Fortress | 29 | First Michael Winner Film |
11 July 1960 | Delta 8-3 | 28 | Cold War Vulcan bombers |
08 September 1960 | Playground Spectacular | 26 | Blackpool in 1960 |
30 June 1981 | Girls Girls Girls! | 30 | Winner again - with stars |
08 April 1963 | Big City | 24 | Glimpse of London in 1962 |
24 March 1964 | Jugglers and Acrobats | 26 | Released with HARD DAYS NIGHT |
15 July 1964 | Swinging UK | 28 | First "music videos" in colour |
28 July 1964 | UK Swings Again | 27 | More "music videos" in colour |
09 May 1972 | SS France | 28 | The biggest ship then afloat |
15 December 1976 | Get 'Em Off | 32 | "X" cert striptease documentary |
22 December 1981 | Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham | 25 | One of Harold Baim's last films |
12 July 1982 | Pete Murray Takes You to Nottingham | 17 | One of the last "Quota Quickies" |
More details available from Richard Jeffs (richard.jeffs@baimfilms.com)
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