Learning on ScreenGive Us This Day
- Synopsis
- A dramatised account of the the nine years spent in England by Robert Noonan who, in 1910 as Robert Tressell, finished writing ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’. The film shows Noonan’s life during the writing of the book, when he was for the most part living on the breadline and working an average of 56 hours a week as a house painter.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 64 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 64 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1978
- Availability
- Hire
Sale - Uses
- Students of British social history and literature of the turn of the century.*
- Subjects
- English language and literature
- Keywords
- biographies; Fiction in English; Tressell, Robert
Credits
- Director
- philip Mulloy
- Producer
- Jim Pearse
- Cast
Frank Grimes
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Production Company
Sponsor
- Name
Arts Council of Great Britain
- Phone
- 020 7973 6455
- Fax
- 020 7973 6581
- Address
- London
SW1P 3NG
Distributor
- Name
Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
- Notes
- Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.
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