Despite TV 7
VHS Colour Sound 1985 34:07
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Summary: Issue Seven of the Tower Hamlets video magazine.
Title number: 2944
LSA ID: LSA/3870
Description: The seventh edition of this Tower Hamlets Video Magazine begins with a montage of extracts from 1980s adverts and television programmes, before featuring arrange of items. In 'Ken Livingstone' the politician is interviewed by young people about his political ambitions, how the Labour Party would counter racism in the police when in power, (Livingstone discusses the Blair Peach case, the Newham 7, and the Brixton riots), his opinions on drugs reform and Cuban politics. In 'Vanguard Video' there are scenes filmed around the last GLC Mayday festival in 1985, featuring the fairground rides, the music stage, trading stalls and their customers, and a number of trade union banners. Film of fireworks at night, precedes images of Margaret Thatcher, riot police and social unrest. The images are sound tracked with the Gil Scott Heron song
Credits: Funded by: London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Funded by: GLC; Funded by: GLAA
Further information: Founded by Mark Saunders in 1982, Despite TV operated out of the Tower Hamlets Arts Project on Whitechapel Road, London. Despite TV produced video magazines about local issues.
Keywords: Drugs; Racially motivated crime
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Tower Hamlets; Stepney; Dogs, Isle of; Limehouse
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