

The longest segment of the film (9 mins) has a bowler-hatted reporter ( Tim Brooke-Taylor) wandering through " Swinging London", searching for Carnaby Street with limited success. Each line spoken by Churchill is a well-known witticism commonly attributed to him. Welles plays Winston Churchill fielding press questions and then exchanging bon mots with Nancy Astor ( Oja Kodar). The first segment is filmed entirely in silhouette. The film consists of five segments, all of them comic: Churchill, Swinging London, Four Clubmen, Stately Homes and Tailors. This was abandoned in 1969 when CBS withdrew their funding over Welles' long-running disputes with US authorities regarding his tax status, he continued to fashion the footage in his own style.
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The film started life as a part of a 90-minute TV special for CBS, entitled Orson's Bag, consisting of Welles' 40-minute condensation of The Merchant of Venice, and assorted sketches around Europe. One Man Band, also known as London and Swinging London is an unfinished short film made by Orson Welles between 19. Since the development of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) in the 1980s, musicians have also incorporated chest-mounted MIDI drum pads, foot-mounted electronic drum triggers, and electronic pedal keyboards into their set-ups.

More complicated setups may include wind instruments strapped around the neck, a large bass drum mounted on the musician's back with a beater which is connected to a foot pedal, cymbals strapped between the knees or triggered by a pedal mechanism, tambourines and maracas tied to the limbs, and a stringed instrument strapped over the shoulders (e.g., a banjo, ukulele or guitar).

The simplest type of "one-person band" - a singer accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar and harmonica mounted in a metal "harp rack" below the mouth - is often used by buskers.

A one-man band or one-woman band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical and/or electronic contraptions.
