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The film shows night cleaners at work in London's offices. Cut into this film are interviews with cleaners on their poor pay and difficult conditions of work and interviews with managers of cleanin...g firms. There is also some commentary on the role of women in society.
The film shows night cleaners at work in London's offices. Cut into this film are interviews with cleaners on their poor pay and difficult conditions of work and interviews with managers of cleanin...g firms. There is also some commentary on the role of women in society.
| Module code and title: | TAD292, Art and environment |
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| Item code: | TAD292; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 08-09-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Nell Smith |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Political film |
| Footage description: | This is part of a film called "The Nightcleaners" made by an independent film-making group called the Berwick Street Collective. The film attempts to show the conditions under which night cleaners work and in an effort to depart from standard cinema conventions the Berwick Street Collective adopt new techniques of film making. In Radio Programme 15 of this course two members of the Collective talk to Janet Woollacott about how and why they made the film. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72190 |
| Production number: | 00525_5214 |
| Videofinder number: | 1082 |
| Available to public: | no |
