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Free cinema [DVD] / directed by Lindsay Anderson ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994 | Reisz, Karel | Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991 | Mazzetti, Lorenza, 1927-2020 | Goretta, Claude | Tanner, Alain | Irvin, JohnPublisher number: BFIVD717 | bfi VideoPublication details: [London] : British Film Institute, c2006. Description: 3 DVDs (475 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
Disk 1: O dreamland (1953) -- Momma don't allow (1956) -- Together (1956) -- Wakefield express (1952) -- Nice time (1957) -- The singing street (1952) -- Every day except Christmas (1957). Disk 2: Refuge England (1959) -- Enginemen (1959) -- We are the Lambeth boys (1959) -- Food for a blush (1959). Disk 3: One potato two potato (1957) -- March to Aldermaston (1959) -- The vanishing street (1962) -- Tomorrow's Saturday ( 1962) -- Gala day (1963). Extras: Small is beautiful : the story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers (2006).
Summary: A highly influential but critically neglected movement in British cinema history, Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary in the 1950s, but also served as a precursor for the better-known British New Wave of social-realist feature films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in February 1956, when a group, led by critic and filmmaker Linday Anderson, screened their short films at the National Film Theatre, Free Cinema proved so popular that five more programmes followed until 1959, featuring films by young British and foreign filmmakers (container).
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A DVD compilation of documentary films produced between 1952 and 1963.

Includes accompanying booklet.

Disk 1: O dreamland (1953) -- Momma don't allow (1956) -- Together (1956) -- Wakefield express (1952) -- Nice time (1957) -- The singing street (1952) -- Every day except Christmas (1957). Disk 2: Refuge England (1959) -- Enginemen (1959) -- We are the Lambeth boys (1959) -- Food for a blush (1959). Disk 3: One potato two potato (1957) -- March to Aldermaston (1959) -- The vanishing street (1962) -- Tomorrow's Saturday ( 1962) -- Gala day (1963). Extras: Small is beautiful : the story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers (2006).

A highly influential but critically neglected movement in British cinema history, Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary in the 1950s, but also served as a precursor for the better-known British New Wave of social-realist feature films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in February 1956, when a group, led by critic and filmmaker Linday Anderson, screened their short films at the National Film Theatre, Free Cinema proved so popular that five more programmes followed until 1959, featuring films by young British and foreign filmmakers (container).

Exempt from certification.

DVD, region 2.