https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b53843c6-6afa-47df-b873-326e62a38cd6 'British Sounds' / 'See You at Mao' France, 1969, Groupe Dziga Vertov Language Audio: English, Subtitles: N/A "'A political film in the sense that its extremely simple way of proceeding allows everyone to criticize it easily; and therefore to make the demarcation between being of the bourgeois class and taking a proletarian class position.' -Jean-Luc Godard "This is a political documentary about the condition of the British working class in the late 1960s. The film begins with a long tracking shot (nearly eight minutes) showing the assembly line of the MG sports car at a British Motor Corporation car factory in Dagenham, with workers at work. The scene recalls the famous and very long sequence shot of 'Weekend', which precedes it by only two years. The commentary reads extracts from the Communist Manifesto, then a childish voiceover summarises the key dates of the workers' struggles in England. In the next scene, an off-screen female voice reads texts on the condition of women, showing a static shot of an interior. A naked woman leaves one room and enters another, then the same actress is framed in close-up on her stomach and pubic area, inally she is filmed talking on the phone (this is Sheila Rowbotham, a feminist activist who writes for the British women's liberation movement's magazine 'Black Dwarf'). The next frame shows the upper body of a man reading excerpts from anti-working class political speeches, then texts from student revolutionary documents. The next sequence films a meeting of Trotskyist trade unionists, then young students in an Essex interior preparing political posters and changing the lyrics of some Beatles songs to a revolutionary tone. For example, the chorus of the song 'Hello, Goodbye' is replaced by the slogan: 'You Say US And I Say Mao'. In the epilogue, hands with clenched fists tear up paper British flags." -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Sounds (machine translation) Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:12:18 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b53843c6-6afa-47df-b873-326e62a38cd6 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.