Look, Look and Look Again
Look, Look and Look Again is a BBC schools TV series from the 1980s, covering art for primary school pupils.
A series showing children and their teachers carrying out artwork projects, emphasising the importance of observing and recording what they see. A narrator explains what they are doing, and the voices of children taking part in the projects are heard to explain what they were thinking and planning. Occasionally professional artists are also seen at work.
The first unit of five programmes from 1982 focus in turn on landscapes, people, other living things, patterns & textures and man-made objects.
A follow-up unit of four more programmes in 1984 look at artistic techniques, and how and why things look as they do. Episodes cover in turn the built environment, nature, self-portraits and unusual art materials.
There is an emphasis on children's own art work and the pieces made by children in the films are shown at the end of each programme. The covers of the teacher's notes also show children's own art work.
The series was, apparently, originally envisaged to follow a single group of students in an Art Club trying different activities over time, as it is described as such in the preview in the 1981-82 BBC schools catalogue, but the finished programmes follow a different group of teacher and pupils each time.
Titles & Theme Music
The opening titles for Unit 1 focus on the idea of looking and observing, and they change with the subject of each episode.
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The theme tune is a piece of library music called Happy Whistler by John Fiddy.
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Unit 2, added in 1984, used the same title music but an entirely new title sequence showing an artist at work.
Episode List
| # | # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | |||
| 1. | (1) | Finding the View | 11 Jan 1982 |
| 2. | (2) | Living Images | 25 Jan 1982 |
| 3. | (3) | Natural Details | 8 Feb 1982 |
| 4. | (4) | Pattern in Place | 1 Mar 1982 |
| 5. | (5) | Working Drawings | 15 Mar 1982 |
| Unit 2 | |||
| 6. | (1) | My Place | 11 May 1984 |
| 7. | (2) | If You Go Down to the Woods | 25 May 1984 |
| 8. | (3) | Portrait of the Artist | 15 Jun 1984 |
| 9. | (4) | Bits and Pieces | 29 Jun 1984 |
Broadcasts
The series was originally broadcast fortnightly, the five episodes of Unit 1 occupying the ten weeks of the TV spring term, and the four episodes of Unit 2 added later to occupy the eight weeks of the TV summer term.
From 1986 all nine episodes were combined and shown weekly within the ten weeks of the TV autumn term. For the final broadcasts in 1989 the eight weeks in the TV summer term were used to screen eight of the episodes, omitting Working Drawings.
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-82 | Spring 1982 | Monday, 2:01pm | Wednesday, 10:15am | BBC1 | Fortnightly | |||
| 1982-83 | Spring 1983 | Tuesday, 11:40am | Thursday, 9:48am | BBC1 | Fortnightly | |||
| 1983-84 | Spring & Summer 1984 | Tuesday, 2:40pm | Friday, 11:00am | BBC2 | Fortnightly | |||
| 1984-85 | Spring & Summer 1985 | Tuesday, 2:40pm | Friday, 11:00am | BBC2 | Fortnightly | |||
| 1985-86 | Spring & Summer 1986 | Tuesday, 11:17am | Wednesday, 2:18pm | BBC2 | Fortnightly | |||
| 1986-87 | Autumn 1986 | Tuesday, 9:35am | Friday, 9:30am | BBC2 | ||||
| 1987-88 | Autumn 1987 | Tuesday, 9:52am | BBC2 | |||||
| 1988-89 | Summer 1989 | Tuesday, 10:15am | Friday, 10:05am | BBC2 |
Credits
Unit 1
| Narrator | Nigel Lambert |
| Series Producer | Geoff Wilson |
| Producer | Judith Miles (episodes 1, 2 & 5) |
Unit 2
| Narrator | Shireen Shah |
| Consultants | Moy Keightley Sean McErlean |
| Producer | Edward Hayward |
Resources
Teacher's Notes
Extensive notes in each episode were provided for teachers, including suggestions for preparation, lesson starters and follow-up work, plus 'transformations' suggesting how to start bigger art projects inspired by the episodes.
Unusually for broadcasting teacher's notes the booklets are illustrated with full-colour reproductions of children's work.
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