The Glitterball (1977)
The Glitterball is a 1977 British Sci Fi children's film made by Mark Forstater Productions for the Children's Film Foundation. The film was screened at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival as part of a retrospective of 16 "rarely seen" British films made between 1967 and 1979, "rediscovered" after a year of detective work by event staff. In 1979, Methuen Publishing released the children's novel by the same name, written by screenwriters Howard Thompson and Harley Cokeliss. ISBN 9780416863406.
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