Journal of Co-operative Studies 33(3), 247-266
Creating a labour movement film service: The Co-operative Movement and the Workers’ Film Association in the 1930s
Creating a labour movement film service: The Co-operative Movement and the Workers’ Film Association in the 1930s
Alan Burton
Vol 33(3), pp. 247-266
How to cite this article: Burton, A. (2000). Creating a labour movement film service: The Co-operative Movement and the Workers’ Film Association in the 1930s. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 33(3), 247-266
Abstract
While historians have acknowledged the contribution of co-operators to the formation of the Workers' Film Assocation, certain fundamental problems and tensions between different co-operative constituencies have remained unexamined, and which are crucial for understanding the actual form the organisation eventually assumed, and how it developed as the labour movement's film service into the war years and beyond. This paper offers a detailed examination of that conflict between educational and promotional imperatives which lay behind the formation of the democratic labour movement's first film service.
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