Here's the first look at some of Michael Palin's never-before-seen super 8mm home movies from the peak of Monty Python's fame.

The footage comes from 1972, when he, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Carol Cleveland were filming in location in Jersey.

Palin says: 'I had a morning off and took film of the preparation for a sequence in which John Cleese [as highwayman Dennis Moore] holds up a passing stagecoach.

'Looking back now, I realise that the unique aspect of filming I captured that day was its boredom. In that way it is, at least, an honest bit of footage and remains almost the only movie material of Python at work in those early days of the TV series.'

Palin's home movies will be screened at an 'oddities and varieties' event as part of a 50th anniversary Monty Python series at the BFI on London's South Bank in September

Published: 3 Aug 2019