and Municipal Workers' Union for shop stewards found that it was much use of Look Back at Grunwick, a film on the Grunwick struggle made by Chris Thomas which is strongly critical of the TUC, that it purchased its own copy.
The agricultural workers' union has been using Superman and the Bride which is about the way in which TV women's traditional roles, made by Television, and Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple's feature film on the battles of the Kentucky miners.
inest are a lew examples aren't too many others — of radical films and TV programmes being shown and discussed within the trade union movement.
It was to promote such developments that Socialist Film Services was set up a year ago, with financial support from producers and editors.
"The labour movement,' says Ken Hulme, secretary of the organisation, 'cannot continue SO reinforces men's and Thames medium. - and there left-wing film generally to ignore the most powerful medium. Trade umous and une lelt naraly ever use tims. and they rarely sponsor films or experiment with the Promoting films and TV programmes that are available for hire hundred featured in Socialist Film Services' - has meant making contact with the trade union education departments, putting together a mailing list of organisations which have shown an interest in using film, and acting as an advice centre on the practicalities of film showing and discussion.
The South-east Region Promotion there are nearly a useful films availability.
BBC-TV which is with non-professionals?
The children, yes, I found them in schools and colleges. The one playing Tolly was 15 years old then, now he is 17, he's left school and is working as an apprentice miner.
The majority of the actors are not comedy actors but stand-up comics the clubs. They professionals, the union demands that they are professionals, which is quite right when you consider of unemployment in profession.
These people who work in clubs weren't trying to get themselve films, they concentrate presently making a trade union recruitment commercial in Bengali for showing in cinemas, has arranged with Socialist Film services a series of film previews so that trades unionists in the area can see what's on offer.
has also involved selecting and ensuring their Thus Socialist Film Services paid for It Ain't Half Racist, Mum, the analysis of TV's racism made by the Campaign Against Racism in the Media and originally shown as a Door programme, converted from video to 16mm colour film.
Within a day of the leaflet advertising this film being mailed out, four bookings were physical psychological traits.
The character Franval, Black Jack, fits in well into this team; he needs the help of the child and to become part of the group of travelling showmen because he is a foreigner.
Doesn't the character of Belle, the aL C little mad girl, bear many similarities with 'Family Life'? the the Yes and no, in this film the situation is the reversed. by her family, and her on grows out of her confinement.
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Most television thwarted performance rather than system played by Jean individuals.
lila becomes between employer. steel strike. others Belle is locked up, rejected them 'madness' different regions.
film for television.
'There's no doubt that the films we're popularising are doing well,' says Ken Hulme. "The distributors find that they have to make The adds, working when trade unions will films and socialist film-makers to go out and make them There seems to be just one example of that During the local authority workers strike in the winter of 1978, a group of film. makers called Union Media co-produced with mainly interviews on the issues involved and how they organised, the film includes a heated discussion on whether the union should have gone for an NUPE has supplied its offices with video recorders so that the film is The Socialist Film Services Handbook is available from: Ken Hulme, Room 427, Wool Brushfield St, , London El. Tel 01In Family Life the young girl is a prisoner to the personality of her Garfield, the author, has worked in a hospital, and he based his a true story but the which Belle is nursed belong to the 18th century.
How is this film, and your other films, distributed in Britain?
Very badly. Films have to be made with a view to the American market, so they make science-fiction films and Films like ours, "little' films, have a hard time surviving. film workers work for These days even the most British of all British films has to have a touch of the transatantic. now not one of my films has been sold in the United States.
You have to work for television. I've made several films for the BBC: Days of Hope was a history of the labour movement, of revolutionaries by reformists, the experience of two men and a woman between 1916 and 1926 The film finishes with the General Strike.
There was also The Price of Coal written by Barry Hines . In the first part there is a 'bluff' leading up to the visit of Prince Charles to the mine. In the second part there is an accident, they wanted to increase production at the expense of the safety regulations. It was a true story, but we changed the names in order to show that the to. blame and I've just finished The Game Keeper, also with Barry Hines. who SICCIWOrKe gamekeeper for aristocrat. In this film the interest lies in the relations between the classes friends, between him and his new this ex-worker I'd like to make a film about the After steel strike Will nave to take up the struggle, so it will be important for see the experiences of This would be a At the moment I am on the left of