Election '74 No. 2
1/2 inch open-reel videotape Black & White Sound 1974 32:41
Summary: Part two of black and white footage of a conversation in 1974 between a white member of the Socialist Workers Revolutionary party and a white member of the Liberal party, chaired by a young Black man. The video ends with the young Black man attending a polling station and interviewing voters.
Title number: 21162
LSA ID: LSA/27858
Description: The member of the Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party is from Tower Hamlets but identifies as a candidate in Newham, whereas the Liberal party member is a candidate for the newly defined constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. The Liberal party member wears a black suit with a badge on his blazer and smokes a cigarette. The Socialist member wears a thick jumper with a fur lined coat and trousers. The dialog is occasionally inaudible. They discuss election deposits, the three day week, miners, unemployment, Tory government and liberal party co-partnership workers policy. The video then cuts to the Black interviewer walking into the polling station to see if he can vote, followed by shots of people voters exiting via the corridors. The presenter exits the station and states that he was not on the register so was not eligible to vote. He then interviews voters exiting the polling station, such as labour voters, a woman campaigning for the communist party and a miner. The static then cuts to the interviewer practising his presentation, informing the viewer that he has attended three polling stations and been turned away from each.
Credits: Basement Project (Producer)
Locations: Tower Hamlets
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