Swimming 2
1/2 inch open-reel videotape Black & White Sound c1970 32:44
Summary: Part two of black and white recording of people swimming. The second part of the tape includes interviews with various working class people on a Tower Hamlets estate, such as mothers, young children and men in pubs
Title number: 21526
LSA ID: LSA/28229
Description: The start of the video features the camera zooming into various young white people swimming in a pool. The video cuts to an interview with two young mothers who live on an estate in East London, they speak about how they moved into a new council home due to the GLC. One woman talks about her partner who is incarcerated, impressions of the estate, misogyny, unemployment, youth clubs and writing a book. The video then cuts to exterior footage of an estate, zooming into windows and local young people playing. The video then cuts to a very dark room of a pub in which white men are socialising, talking, drinking and playing pool. The video zooms into the faces of various white men with mullets. The video then cuts to a close up of a drawing that the narrator calls “the winning picture”. The camera follows various children on the estate as they play, many wave and pose for the camera. The camera cuts to two teenagers being interviewed, they discuss school, employment and healthcare.
Credits: Basement Project (Producer)
Locations: East London
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