Hazel & Allen
1/2 inch open-reel videotape Black & White Sound 1970 12:54
Summary: Black and white footage of Hazel and Allen, a recently married white working class heterosexual couple from Tower Hamlets. They participated in the Basement Projects with Maggie Pinhorn. They have a playful and intimate conversation about married life, work and their plans. They take it in turns behind the camera to film each other.
Title number: 21524
LSA ID: LSA/28227
Description: The footage has occasional static and dialogue is occasionally inaudible. In the educational ethos of community video, the pair are learning how to use the equipment with exclamations of “is it on?” and requests to make sure the red light is on. The video starts focused on Allen, as Hazel is heard off-screen, zooming into Allen, who is a white man in a lapel shirt with a striped woolen vest and dark short hair. They discuss Allen’s work, married life, dentist appointments and plans to visit the Basement and phone Maggie Pinhorn. Hazel informs Allen that they have sweet and sour chops and rice for dinner but is open to trying curry. The video is interrupted with a shot of static as the pair swap and we are introduced to Hazel in front of the camera and Allen questioning from behind. Hazel is sitting on a sofa with a black board behind her, she wears a striped jumper, round spectacles and long mid-length fair hair. She discusses her work, colleagues, food plans for friends' future weddings and they laugh and flirt together. This presents an intimate and candid look into the gendered and heterosexual relations of a white heterosexual married couple in 1970.
Credits: Basement Project (Producer)
Locations: East London
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