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Video for BBC by IEC and Girl's Play.

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_39332
Date: 1970
Location: East London
Chroma: B/W
Duration: 00:21:46
Format: "Sony 1/2"" Open Reel"
Credits: View

Synopsis

Two black and white videos spliced together. A group of white working class youth perform a script in hand performance of Spare us a Copper with youth portraying police and crime. Maggie Pinhorn and another white female teacher read stage directions. The camera pans around and zooms into the actors facial expressions. A moment of static interrupts the video and we are introduced to a new play. On the Game is performed by Black working class girls, they perform scenes of sex workers and pimps. A Black boy and girl kiss for the camera. Some of the girls crack into laughter during the play. Dialogue is mostly inaudible. It is unclear whether the scripts are related to the 1940 and 1974 films of the same name.

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