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
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)