Research Brief: Morecambe & Wise

During the briefing this morning we were verbally given our next brief which would continue over the christmas period and into the next term. During the briefing we were all given a area/theme to research into, everybody was given a different theme/area to research into, the theme I have been given is 'Morecambe & Wise'. 

Once given my brief I drew to a conclusion within my thoughts that I knew briefly of this comic-double act however not enough at all to create a body of research. So the first step I took into becoming more aware of 'Morecambe & Wise' was to carry out some brief background reading on their history as a double-act. As you can see from the spider diagram below I have outlined some of the main points within their career and some general reading into the pair's life.

Information collated from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_and_Wise

Once carrying out brief background research on the pair I decided to find watch a couple of video's of the Morecambe & Wise and get a custom to their work and the career which surrounded there lives and created fortune and fame during the time that they aired on British Television. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morecambe-%26-wise_skip-dance.jpg

A image and freeze frame of the 'famous skip dance' which occupied British Television screens from 1941-1984.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/p009y39r_640_360.jpg

http://wwwcdn.channel5.com/assets/images/000/020/208/large_size_Morecambe-_-Wise_blackbg.jpg?1323684940

The Morecambe & Wise christmas show which aired in 1980.

                                        

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdH8gWnxHys

                                        

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQYU9mUyF4

                                   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysfvM9uhFdg

As we can see from these videos which were aired on the BBC the show seemed to be fairly popular during this period of time, the show was so popular that some of the guests who starred in it ranged from 'The Beatles' to 'Cliff Richard' to the great 'Tom Jones' names that to this day we know and still admire.

Once findings some clips and watching there talent on Youtube I decided to type into google 'Morecambe & Wise' and see the google listings of their name.

Once reading through these listings it became apparent that Morecambe & Wise have their own website in which contains news which has been backdated from 2007 up to this very day, archives a gallery full of images along with an section where folks can purchase dvd's, books, video's etc. of there comic-act from decades ago. 

www.morecambeandwise.com

As discovered in the initial spider diagram Morecambe & Wise's career began through performing in Theatre around Britain. Some of the venues which opened the doorway to a lifetime full of fame and polishing there talents were:

• Nottingham Empire Theatre 
• Swansea Empire Theatre
• Windmill Theatre 
• Glasgow Empire