Performance by young amateur musicians organized by youth magazine "Dookoła Świata" ("Around the World") and the "Czerwono-Czarni" music group. In 1961 and 1962 similar events were organized in Szczecin, Łódź, Kraków, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań and Lublin in which more than 3000 performers were auditioned. The winners were invited to perform at the Festival of Young Talents in Szczecin: • The Festival of Young ...
The second person singing is Marian Lichtman, later a member of the popular band Trubadurzy.
At the end of the clip we see Janusz Godlewski, a frontman of Czerwono-Czarni singing and playing guitar.
Big-beat (bigbit, big beat, translated to Polish as "mocne uderzenie") was a term used in 1960s Poland for all styles of loud pop and rock music.
Uśmiech ('Smile') was a café in Warsaw established in 1961 for members of ZMS (Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej, Socialist Youth Union).
Taken from the Polish Film Chronicle: 35mm.online/en/vod/chronicles/polish-film-chronicle-62-03a
Here's the same clip used by Italian newsreel: • Ricordano i loro colleghi
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