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This is one of many examples in the NFTVA of a well-known film being enriched by the Archive’s preservation of a lesser-known title which relates to it. 'March to Aldermaston' is widely known as the film record of the famous 1958 march against atomic weapons. When Francis Jude heard that the Nuclear Disarmament Newsreel Committee were not going to make a film record of the 1960 Aldermaston march he persuaded the General Purposes Committee of the Society of Friends (Quakers) to finance the film (Jude was himself a Quaker). 'Deadly the Harvest', documenting and (via its commentary) interpreting the CND march, was financed on condition that the film would cover the Quaker involvement in it and cover the anniversary of the 1660 Declaration. The difficult task of creating something different out of familiar footage was in the hands of left wing cameraman Brian Probyn and John Fitzgerald, a film director with the National Coal Board Film unit while Jude wrote the commentary. Recently acquired as part of the ETV collection. |
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