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  • London Through A Moving Lens: Mick Jagger, hip-hop and futuristic front rooms

  • Fri Nov 21 2008 Peter Watts

  • 1 London's b-boys descend on the Hippodrome for 'Electro Rock', a classic account of early UK hip-hop.

    2 Mick Jagger wasn't happy about Finnish police in this 1970 interview. Watch him say 'we don't do drugs' while keeping a straight face!

    3 A brilliant London Transport film from 1983. Includes footage of the tunneling of the Victoria Line.

    4 Sam the Wheel Man is a Railton Road legend. Here is a film he shot of Brixton in the 1970s.

    5 The Ideal Home Show in the 1970s anticipates the London home of the 21st century. Again with the robot vacuum cleaner?

    Last week's films, including some spellbinding disco-dancing on the South Bank, can be found here.

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