Moslems In Britain

Dates

1961 - 1964

Category

Cinemagazine - Government

History

Moslems in Britain was a short-lived black and white series made by United Motion Pictures (London) Ltd for the Central Office of Information and sponsored by the Foreign Office. The first two films, MANCHESTER and CARDIFF, were presented in Arabic by Gamal Kinay and featured interviews with both Muslim women and men about their lives in Britain. Shooting scripts for a further two films on Liverpool and Sheffield were commissioned in October 1961 but neither went any further. A more thematic approach was adopted with PLACES and PEOPLE, the final two films in the series, released in 1964.

Provenance

The data for this series was compiled from the following sources: the COI catalogue cards held at Film Images, the COI monthly divisional reports (INF 8) and production files held at The National Archives.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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