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Bracknell New Town

Date released

Sep 1967

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

64

NoS ID

327817

Story no

5 / 6

COI synopsis: Princess Sherada Shah of Nepal visiting Bracknell New Town and the child welfare services with her husband.

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Welfare (1975 Film)

Director

Frederick Wiseman

Producer

Frederick Wiseman

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examination of a New York welfare centre, showing how people confronted by tangible problems are trapped in a demoralising system of poverty, dependence and indignity. The film was made during the chaotic...

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Parliamentary debates on industry and welfare (1979)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

Parliamentary report by John Armstrong. Includes Industry Secretary Sir Keith Joseph’s announcement of planned cuts in regional development aid to industrial problem areas, and debate over closure of the...

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Welfare for All? (1998 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

Uses contemporary archive film to present interviews with people who remenber the ‘birth’ of the post-war welfare state. Traces the influence of pre-war social and exonomic conditions and World War 2...

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Declining Citizenship (1998 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the citizenship status of older people and particularly the changes in welfare provision for them in final two decades of the 20th century. Among the issues explored are defining the most important...

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Warfare and Welfare (1985 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Uses the propaganda short aimed at servicemen, the documentary, and the feature film to examine the new interest in welfare issues provoked by World War II. Professor Marwick discusses differences between...

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New Kind of Match, A (1967 Film)

Producer

Brian Armstrong

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Bradford’s successful attempt to look after and integrate its 16,000 Pakistani immigrants into housing, public health and education schemes.

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Spongers, The (1978 Film, Video)

Director

Roland Joffe

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A mother with four children, deserted by her husband, fights for her welfare rights. One of the children has Down’s syndrome. The play is set against the Silver Jubilee celebrations, in a time of high...

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Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear (1974 Film)

Director

Michael White

Producer

Roger Hacker

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the plight of battered wives. In particular the film looks at the experiences of a group of women who, with their children, were receiving temporary refuge in a house run - without official help -...

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The Docker

Series name

Looking At Britain

Issue no

13

NoS ID

326939

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: London dockworkers pictured against daily activities at the Port of London. The film shows something of the pride taken by the docker in his work and in his native River Thames; the kind of...

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