... of documentary. The Promised Land
Forty years ago Britain was on the brink of victory against Nazi Germany. At no time within living memory was the nation so confident or united. For with victory would come Britain's New Deal. The
Beveridge Report promised a new social order. The 'Five Giants' - Want, Ignorance, Squalor, Idleness and Disease - would after centuries be banished from the land, and the nation rejoiced at the prospect of this new dawn.
Forty years on the hope and idealism have disappeared, and in this documentary essay, shot in black and white, the sights and sounds of post-war Britain on the threshold of its renaissance are contrasted with images of some aspects of life in Britain today.
Film cameraman KEVIN ROWLEY Film recordist STEPHEN GATLAND Film editor MICHAEL CASEY
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer PETER GORDON