| Description | As part of British Film Year Thames Television asked three British film directors (Lindsay Anderson, Alan Parker and Richard Attenborough) to each make a documentary on British Cinema. Lindsay Anderson's programme looked at the history of 'Free Cinema' which, he argued, started with the work of Humphrey Jennings and ended with Britannia Hospital . Anderson used the programme as an opportunity to criticise British Film Year (which he disagreed with) but the documentary is also a passionate retrospective of the films of Anderson and his 'Free Cinema' colleagues. The programme aired on ITV on Wednesday 19 March 1986 at 9.00 pm.
Material relating to the programme includes script; file containing artwork used in programme; copies of letters from Anderson to Thames Television; correspondence between Anderson and David Puttnam re programme and British Film Year; correspondence re series on Buster Keaton produced by Thames Television which Anderson narrated; introduction to programme written by Anderson for preview screening; photographs; press cuttings |