Commissioned to celebrate the Wakefield Express newspaper’s fiftieth anniversary. It presents the history and the daily operation of the paper and devotes a central sequence to the subjects which occupy the reporters on the Express and its associated newspapers, the communal life of a group of towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire. We see a training session of the Wakefield Trinity, the local rugby team, and a school concert; a constituency political meeting and the launching of a ship; a carnival in Pontefract; the unveiling of a war memorial in Sharlston. But there is nothing of the impartiality of the “general survey” about the film’s approach: it brings enough concern to the communal activities to view them, in turn, with affection and irony, exasperation and respect. Commentary by George Pootts; camera by Walter Lassally.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
011623
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Mass media
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Newspapers
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Reporters and reporting
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Great Britain - Social life and customs
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Yorkshire (England)
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Community life
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)