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Paul Morrison

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_85185
Date: 2016
Location: North London
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:22:27
Format: Digital file
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Paul Morrison went to work for the BBC, after studying at Cambridge University and the RCA film school.  Uncomfortable with mainstream media, he left the BBC in 1970 to join Inter-Action in Kentish town, founding their media department to make videos with kids and community groups, and experimental participatory films.

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00:00 Start 04:02 Joining the BBC 05:26 Moving on to Inter-Action 07:38 The Inter-Action lifestyle 08:46 ED Berman methodology 09:30 Battling top-down media representation 11:10 Working in the local community 12:29 I still wanted a revolution 13:17 Troops Out 14:50 John Hopkins fixed our cameras 15:27 Big Flame 16:37 Newsreel 18:28 Counter culture 21:18 I had always wanted to be an artist

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Camera: Zoe Kinross
Interviewer: Ceridwen Williams
Editor: Ceridwen Williams
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