Give 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

Name

Stephen Cross Ltd

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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