with Rene Cutforth
The second of three weekly films. ' A mean and sordid decade' was W. H. Auden 's description of a period which Still enjoys a nostalgic revival.
RENE CUTFORTH looks back to give a highly personal recollection of the age of the Auden group and Shirley Temple, Art Deco and Ginger Rogers , the Depression and the excursion train, the rise of Adolf Hitler and of the movies, the Spanish Civil War and the International Surrealist Exhibition, Poetry read by TONY CHURCH
The television scrapbook technique raised to an art form ... irresistible viewing. (OBSERVER) Film editor JONATHAN CRANE
Producer LORNA PEGRAM