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This programme presents peace-making as an ideal subject of the newsreel and documentary cameraman, and the film historian. For on ething, tha adaption of a politician's speaking style for the orde...al of being filmed provides an insight into his personality of the sort the Professor Artur Marwick describes as 'unwitting testimony'. The programme proceeds from the first almost meaningless silent pictures of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles in 1919 to a Lindsay Anderson production of the late 1950s about the C.N.D. In between we see, through newsreels and documentaries, the gradual failure of the League of Nations to cope with the growing threat to peace in Abyssinia and Spain, and the manner in which the United Nations coped with the same sorts of problems. There is also some rare film of individuals and private bodies such as the Quakers and the Independent Labour Party, who tried to prevent war, and who tried to cure some of its worst ravages.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: A301, War and society
Item code: A301; 07
First transmission date: 11-04-1973
Published: 1973
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Duration: 00:23:30
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Producer: Edward Hayward
Contributor: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Arthur Henderson; Arthur Henderson; Fenner Brockway; Film; James Maxton; League of Nations; Newsfilm; Peace conference; Peace keeping; Ramsay MacDonald
Footage description: Arthur Marwick introduces the programme and outlines its intention which is to examine briefly official and unofficial peace movements of the inter war years and of the post-war period. Shots of the 1914-18 war peace conference, Arthur Marwich adding his commentary, newsreel shot of Arthur Henderson at the beginning and at the end of the disarmament conference of 1930. Newsreel shots of Ramsey MacDonald speaking at Lausanne after signing the agreement releasing Germany from her reparations obligations. Newsreel shots of Beverley Nichols addressing gathering of League of Nations Supporters. Arthur Marwick goes on to discuss other unofficial peace movements of the inter war years. Newsreel sequence of League of Nations activity at Geneva. Newsreel item describing in film the growing arms race of the 1930's. Shots of enraged crowds besieging a church sheltering pacifists in the 1st world war. Shots of film showing the relief activities of Quakers in post World War I Austria. Arthur Marwick comments. Sequence from peace march in 1926, and from ILP Summer Camp at Letchworth which includes shots of Fenner Brockway and of James Maxton. Arthur Marwick discusses the unofficial peace movements of the 1930s. Shots of the Youth Peace Pilgrimage of February 1939. Arthur Marwick describes and commentates over. Shots from 'The charter of the United Nations' are shown; opening sequence shows Francis Williams introducing the film, Arthur Marwick comments. The film continues by showing its activities in the prevention of large scale violence and the provision of relief for war victims. Arthur Marwick ends the programme by introducing a clip from Lindsay Anderson's film of the Aldermaston march of Easter 1958.
Master spool number: 6HT/70819
Production number: 00522_3307
Videofinder number: 2573
Available to public: no