Protest and Free cinema

This type of cinema was post war 1950's it was a protest/movement against the dominance of the mainstream.

Free Cinema= A black and white documentary, fly on the wall type of film which are mainly short length. They have style and attitude and have an experimental approach to sound. The films would feature working class people at work in society and were funded by the BFI experimental film fund.

Protest and free cinema films had a shoe string budget so were usually filmed handheld using 16mm Bolex cameras by an unpaid crew. In film different sizes of camera films are used for example for protest and free cinema, a 8mm or 16mm camera would be used as they are for a home movie quality whereas a 35mm would be the industry's standard eg)for still photography and feature length movies and a 52mm would be used in the IMAX cinemas.











We are the Lambeth boys



This short film was by Karl Reis made in 1959, this was a documentary on society and people, modern versions of this are 'The Family' on Channel 4 and '7 Up' on BBC where they would visit and film a group of people every 7 years to examine there progress in life.