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The film ‘Pink Shirts’ is an amateur fiction film that parodies the British fascist movement, Oswald Mosley’s ‘Black Shirts’ in the mid 1930s. It is one of the many amateur productions in the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales's collection and represents an interesting element amongst those pre-war films which reflect something of the political temperament in the country at the time. ‘Pink Shirts’ is unusual not only for its topical story line satirising the ‘Black Shirts’, but also for the fact that it was made by the family and friends of the Marquis of Anglesey - an aristocrat who moved in circles where there was some support for Mosley and his ideas. The drama, in which the children of the family play some of the key parts, was scripted by family friend Peter Fleming (brother of Ian Fleming, the Bond series writer) who also appears in the film. It is infused with images that reflect and anticipate fascist influences of the times, such as the Nazi salutes and military style uniforms of the Black Shirts. The film is accompanied by documentation from Lady Rose McLaren who stars in the film and who donated it to the archive. Other interesting films from this period held in the archive include remarkable amateur footage of a meeting between David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1936 ('Visit of David Lloyd George to Germany'), as well as films of army recruitment rallies and evacuees arriving in Wales, amongst others. |
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