I just watched a 1962 British film, It's Trad, Dad, that was shown on Turner Classic Movies, on cable. It was directed by Richard Lester, who directed A Hard day's Night just a couple of years later. It was an interesting film. You could see Lester developing his quirky style, with various wipes, camera angles, different ways of composing the frame when filming musicians.
The film had a rather standard, for the day, sort of plot - the mayor bans the juke box and the TV at the local coffee house, because he hates rock and jazz. The kids fight back by staging a big show in town. The best-known US musicians were Chubby Checker, Del Shannon, and Garry US Bonds. There were several British jazz bands, mostly dixielandish. One was called The Temperance Seven. They were a precursor to The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, a very humorous, mostly forgotten band of the late 60s and 70s. All and all, interesting and enjoyable, a cut above the genre's usual fare, due to Lester's directing.
