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'After Many a Summer – the changing face of Tiger Bay', is a documentary focusing on the dockland community of Tiger Bay (now known as Butetown), in Cardiff, as the old terraced houses are cleared and replaced with high rise blocks of flats. Along with images of the streets, shops, mosques and homes of the people of this multi-cultural community, their reminiscences and views are recorded concentrating on the changes taking place. One woman talks about the neighbourhood being broken up and how she is unwilling to leave, saying "It’s not right….I don’t want to go". Another woman who has already moved to one of the new blocks is pleased with her modern flat but is already experiencing loneliness. A shopkeeper serving the Muslim community talks about the decline in the number of customers coming in and a Portuguese West African man talks about the community dying and how he sees the break-up of a once well integrated multi-racial area. Much of the power of the film comes through its portrayal of a great sense of loss as the area changes and it captures a clear impression of the place and its people through their words and scenes from their lives. Other films that illustrate aspects of urban Wales held in The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales include the large collection of productions made by the Chapter Video Workshop to explore some of the political and social issues affecting the people of south Wales, especially Cardiff and the Valleys from the mid 1970s to mid 1990s. |
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