British Sounds
1969 TV film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger
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British Sounds (also known as See You at Mao) is an hour-long avant-garde documentary film shot in February 1969 for television, written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger, and produced by Irving Teitelbaum and Kenith Trodd.[2] It was produced during Godard's most outspokenly political period.[3] London Weekend Television refused to screen it owing to its controversial content,[1] but it was subsequently released in cinemas. Godard credited the film as being made by 'Comrades of the Dziga-Vertov Group'.[4]
Jean-Henri Roger
United Kingdom
Kenith Trodd
| British Sounds | |
|---|---|
.png) Opening titles | |
| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Henri Roger |
| Country of origin | France United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producers | Irving Teitelbaum Kenith Trodd |
| Editor | Elizabeth Kozmian (aka Christine Aya)[1] |
| Running time | 54 minutes |
| Production company | Kestrel Productions |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1969 |
Synopsis
The film opens with a long tracking shot of workers at an MG Cars manufacturing plant, with a voiceover containing quotes from the Communist Manifesto. Subsequent scenes depict a naked woman walking around a house with a voiceover from a Marxist feminist tract, a newsreader, representing the British bourgeoisie, delivering a reactionary rant interspersed with footage of workers, a meeting of Trotskyist trade unionists, students creating political posters against a soundtrack of parodies of songs by The Beatles. The film closes with footage of fists punching through Union Jacks.
