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Acting our age / an Umbi Film production for BBC Television ; producer, Deanne Edwards ; director, Gurinder Chadha.
LIBRA VHS HQ1064.G7 A38 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--England--London--Interviews.
- Older people.
- South Asians--England--London--Social conditions.
- South Asians.
- South Asians--Cultural assimilation--England--London.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Race relations.
- History.
- Immigrants.
- East Indians.
- Interviews.
- Ethnicity.
- Social conditions.
- England.
- England--London.
- South Asians--England--London--Ethnic identity.
- East Indians--Great Britain--Interviews.
- Immigrants--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Great Britain--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Umbi Film ; San Francisco, CA : National Asian American Telecommunications Association, 1993.
- Language Note:
- In English and Indic languages with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- With the assistance of the filmmaker, residents of the Milap Day Centre, Southall, West London, a home for South Asian elderly, shoot their own video. They interview a wide range of subjects...from people on the street to members of Parliament. Their production reveals generational attitudes, crosscultural values, racism, and everyday problems which South Asian elderly encounter.
- Participant:
- Jitkaur Bhambra, Sohan Singh Gianni.
- Credits:
- Photography, Nina Kellgren, Lucy Bristow.
- Notes:
- Video release of the 1992 production.
- OCLC:
- 32656970
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