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Cinema of Social Concern - 2

Recording Time and Place

Take a look at the clip below. It would have been shot by someone outwith the community focused upon and more or likely by someone from the middle to upper classes. It can be argued that imagery like this would be used as much for entertainment as for change, with the use of newsreel in cinema shows. 

But there is no clear reason for shooting this film except to record a time and a place for history. The recording of the image is not what is in question, it is the use of the image that is important.

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Film about housing conditions in Glasgow including streetscenes, and dramatised sequences to emphasise the need for good quality council housing schemes.

Film about housing conditions in Glasgow including street scenes, and dramatised sequences to emphasise the need for good quality council housing schemes. Shot in 1952.

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