Commonwealth on Film
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- Episode
- Episode 2 - Childhood
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (29 mins)
- Description
- From Trinidad to Australia, Kenya to Barbados, Canada, India and beyond, over the decades film-makers have captured the rich diversity of the Commonwealth. For more than 8 decades the Commonwealth of Nations, with over 50 member countries and a quarter of the world’s population, has captured the imagination of film-makers. Using wall to wall archive ‘Commonwealth on Film’ brings together a selection of their work from archives across the globe. Some of these unique films are being shown for the first time since they were broadcast. From the earliest newsreels to grand royal tours, from gritty documentaries to public information films this 4-part series is loosely themed around the portrayals of Childhood, Home, Work and Free Time. The film vaults offer a fascinating glimpse away from the Commonwealth Games and towards the daily lives of commonwealth citizens. Across the 4 episodes ‘Commonwealth on Film’, made in partnership with the Open University, reveals a young David Attenborough meeting the fisherwomen of a remote Fijian island; the workers on a newly planted 1950s Australian vineyard; writer Anthony Burgess revisiting his days as a teacher in Malaya; the first Nigerian TV station; the arrival in London of Barbados transport workers; ex-pat life in Malta; a fly on the wall study in a Canadian kindergarten; extracts from a Commonwealth Arts Festival and observations on Hong Kong from the intrepid Alan Whicker.
- Genre
- History; Culture
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Commonwealth on Film". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/85849 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)