Roll out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film

Synopsis: An eclectic mix of dramas, trade films, documentaries and newsreels, showing the changing face of the British pub from 1944 to 1982, exploring its role as a locus for community gathering, the exchange of opinion, relaxing, game-playing and, naturally, drinking, adding up to a kind of social and cultural history of British society, seen through the bottom of a pint glass. Amongst the films are Richard Massingham’s wartime film Down at the Local, German filmmaker Peter Nestler’s view of a Sheffield working man’s club in 1965, and the humorous trade film Henry Cleans Up with Monty Python members Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Social Studies
Keywords: industrial films; social history; working classes; public houses; brewing industry

Name: BFI Filmstore
Email: filmstore@bfi.org.uk
Web: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
Phone: 020 7815 1350
Address: Belvedere Road
South Bank
London
SE1 8XT
Notes: The British Film Institute releases its own productions on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as a variety of film and television materials made by European, American and Japanese companies. All BFI-published titles are available through the usual retail and mail order outlets, as well as via the Filmstore website. The Filmstore shop at BFI Southbank stocks many additional titles, as well as film books, magazines, etc.

This record has been viewed 644 times.