Category: Lesbian and Gay

10
May

A Bit of Scarlet

ABOUT

Using archive clips from from Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes to St Trinian’s and the Carry-On films via the Leather Boys and Victim, A Bit of Scarlet creates a moving and humorous testament to lesbian and gay representations in British film and television.

Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen.

COMMISSION AND CREW

1 x 90 mins for BFI

Producer: Rebecca Dobbs
Director: Andrea Weiss
Writer: Stuart Marshall
Narrator: Sir Ian McKellen

TRANSMISSION AND AVAILABILITY

Broadcast August, 1996 on Channel 4

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21
Jul

Comrades in Arms

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The Second World War is re-examined through the eyes of a group of gay servicemen and servicewomen, whose experiences range from ENSA-style entertainment to the River Kwai prison camp. Personal reminiscences, archive material and staged recreations of gay romances shot in the style of a 1940s black and white movies are combined in a humorous reclamation of a hitherto unrecorded history.

 

COMMISSION AND CREW

1 x 48 mins BBC4. Director: Stuart Marshall, Producer: Rebecca Dobbs

TRANSMISSION AND AVAILABILITY

First Broadcast on Channel 4 1990

 

 

21
Jul

Desire

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From 1910-1945 Germany was subjected to one of the most turbulent periods of social and political change that has been experienced by any European country in the twentieth century.

In Desire, Stuart Marshall traces cultural and official attitudes towards sexuality through this period as competing forces struggled to define the meanings of masculinity and femininity.

COMMISSION AND CREW

88 minutes 16mm Channel 4

Director: Stuart Marshall
Producer: Rebecca Dobbs

TRANSMISSION AND AVAILABILITY

As part of the first magazine series for Gays and Lesbians Out on Tuesdays 1988