I haven't been writing so much on this blog recently as I've been doing most of my blog posts on my
work blog about the project I'm working on cataloguing the records of the National Union of Women Teachers. I was recently cataloguing more boxes of 'cinema' material in my job cataloguing the records of the National Union of Women Teachers. I've been really astonished by just how many different subjects and causes the women of the NUWT were involved in, cinema being just one of many. These boxes in question included material on the use of films in education as well as discussion of the type of films suitable for children's viewing. At the back of one of the files is a collection of invitations to film screenings and to my surprise it included one to a film which I'd catalogued lots of material about before, in my job at Stirling University cataloguing the Lindsay Anderson Archive. The film was not directed by Lindsay Anderson, rather he starred in it, and it was directed by his friend, James Broughton.
The Pleasure Garden is set in Crystal Palace in London and was described by Broughton as a 'midsummer afternoon's day-dream' (taken from the notes provided for the screening). It's a really joyful film, about the triumph of love and freedom over rules and restrictions.
The Lindsay Anderson Collection at Stirling contains correspondence with James Broughton, information about the development and filming of
The Pleasure Garden and a great photo album which Lindsay Anderson made of the filming of
The Pleasure Garden. You can see one of the pages from it below (I originally blogged about this last year
here). You can
search the Anderson Archive for James Broughton and find more information on the film
here.
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