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British Sounds (1970)

52m

Running Time

May 21, 1970
Release Date

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British Sounds (1970)

Name: British Sounds
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970-05-21

52m

Running Time

May 21, 1970
Release Date

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Plot.

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.

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Currently British Sounds is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Canal VOD, Orange VOD

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Cast & Crew.

Irving Teitelbaum

Producer

Jean-Luc Godard

Director / Writer

Kenith Trodd

Producer

Christine Aya

Assistant Editor

Elizabeth Kozmian

Editor

Jean-Henri Roger

Writer / Director

Charles Stewart

Director of Photography

Frederick Sharp

Sound

Media.

Details.

Release Date
May 21, 1970

Status
Released

Running Time
52m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-04-29

This Movie Is About.

socialism

social commentary

british politics

contemplative cinema

agit-prop

feminism

car factory

assembly line

Wiki.

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. It was produced during Godard's most outspokenly political period. London Weekend Television refused to screen it owing to its controversial content, but it was subsequently released in cinemas. Godard credited the film as being made by 'Comrades of the Dziga-Vertov Group'.