Indeed, Cathy, and thanks.
I've been researching my book on broadcast policies and race for several
years (finally being published by Manchester this year or next), and
some of the related memoranda and materials could turn your blood to ice
water. I'm sure you, and all of our colleagues, understand.
To see people like Day for who they are, and to note the time in which
they lived, helps to provide some degree of context. However, the
occasional touches of levity have helped considerably in staving off
bitterness.
Onward!
Best always,
Darrell
Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
269 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-5060 Office
(410) 543-6229 Department
homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
>>> Cathy Douglas <[log in to unmask]> 01/08/10 8:09 AM >>>
Darrell,
Just had to comment on your email, and the humour you brought into
comments which James Wentworth Day made.
All too often when discussing serious issues, we can get bogged down
with the negativity of it all.
It was refreshing to see you still keep a sense of humour, in using the
words 'Gee what a sweetheart'!!
Such irony!
Kind regards
Cathy
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 07:56:48 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ITV programmes on race relations, 1955-1965
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Hi Kathleen,
>
> Understood, but Ian McDonald already helped me to track down the
episode
> in question. Associated Rediffusion was the contractor/producer, the
> programme was presented by Dan Farson, and the show in question was
> Mixed Marriages (tx. 21/05/58).
>
> I've accessed the BFI catalog many times, and visited the library
often
> when in London, but as a U.S. scholar, I'm unable to get a copy of the
> programme without revisiting. However, I was able to find a brief clip
> from ITN and I already had a copy of Black and White in Colour (BBC,
> 1992) which features the segment. I wanted a copy of the complete
> programme, though...!
>
> FYI: In the programme, writer James Wentworth Day is interviewed, and
> explains how he has seen ‘"them" over here’ (West Indian/West
Africans),
> their subsequent ‘mixed marriages, and their children.’ He adds, ‘no
> first class country can afford to produce a race of mongrels.’
Wentworth
> Day also referred to their biracial children as 'coffee-coloured
little
> imps.'
>
> Gee, what a sweetheart.
>
> Thanks Kathleen.......
>
> Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
> The Department of Communication Arts
> Salisbury University
> 269 Fulton Hall
> Salisbury, MD 21801
> (410) 677-5060 Office
> (410) 543-6229 Department
>
> homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
> >>> Kathleen Chater <[log in to unmask]> 01/08/10 6:51 AM >>>
>
> ITV is a generic term for all the independent companies, which in the
> 1958 were strongly regional. Most have now disappeared and their
> libraries have been taken over/dispersed. I assume this was broadcast
> in the London area but I can't remember which company had the
franchise
> there at that time... If it was a studio-based discussion programme
> it's possible it was never recorded. Suggest you contact the British
> Film Institute who may be able to give further information - or even
> have a copy themselves, as they did make copies of some programmes.
> (Despite their title, they include tv). They've also got a great
> library so they may be able to help with other programmes.
>
>
>
> I'm sending this out to everyone as it's generally useful information
> about tracking down tv programmes. The BFI has always been helpful
and
> a mine of information when I've used them.
>
>
>
> Kathy Chater
>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:48:13 -0500
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: ITV programmes on race relations, 1955-1965
> > To: BASA> > Is anyone familiar with the 1958 ITV programme, People in Trouble?
It
> seems to be the only available example of ITV programming that
directly
> addresses racial assimilation in the 1950s. Does anyone know how to
> obtain a copy?
> >
> > Further, does anyone know of any other examples of ITV shows that
> address race relations and/or the 'immigrant problem?'
> >
> > Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
> > Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
> > The Department of Communication Arts
> > Salisbury University
> > 269 Fulton Hall
> > Salisbury, MD 21801
> > (410) 677-5060 Office
> > (410) 543-6229 Department
> >
> > homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
> > >>> arthur torrington <[log in to unmask]> 12/08/09 3:51
AM
> >>>
> >
> > FYI
> > TV ratings: Small Island debuts with 5m viewers
> > BBC1's adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel beats ITV1's
> terrestrial movie premiere Batman Begins
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > John Plunkett
> > guardian.co.uk
> >
> > Monday 7 December 2009
> >
> >
> >
> > BBC1's adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel Small Island
> began with 5 million viewers, beating ITV1's terrestrial movie
premiere
> Batman Begins last night, Sunday 6 December. Small Island, starring
> Naomie Harris, David Oyelowo and Ruth Wilson, had a 21% share of the
> audience for the first of a two-part adaptation between 9pm and
10.30pm,
> according to unofficial overnight figures. Batman Begins had 4.6
million
> viewers, a 20% share, between 8.30pm and 11.10pm on ITV1. The
Christian
> Bale movie
> >
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Let's keep the explicit scene in Small Island in perspective.
> >
> > Nine o'clock is the cut-off point on British TV in terms of when
> violent and sexual material can start to be shown.
> >
> > Of course an explicit scene was going to be shown. The narrator
makes
> the point about how life changing the experience was for the white
> woman. That comment would have had less force if the scene had not
been
> explicit. The director did not need to show a second explicit scene.
All
> that was needed was to show that the woman had become pregnant. The
> narrator's reference to it also being of a life changing nature
reminded
> viewers about the first time.
> >
> > It does not seem grounds to me for not showing Small Island to
A-level
> students: 16-18 year olds.
> >
> > Sean
>
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