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Lindsay Anderson’s short piece, the title of which I have appropriated, was written for the Winter 1956 edition of Sight and Sound (pp. 159–160).
Abstract
Lindsay Anderson’s short piece, the title of which I have appropriated, was written for the Winter 1956 edition of Sight and Sound (pp. 159–160). He had evidently been invited by the editor, Penelope Houston, to reflect upon his experiences of helming five episodes of the children’s TV show The Adventures of Robin Hood. They, of course, went back a long way. She had also, while they were both at Oxford a decade earlier, edited Sequence in which Anderson’s first articles on cinema appeared and which he would later himself edit with Karel Reisz. Presumably his university colleagues were curious to know how this possible detour into churning out mass entertainment for the newly established commercial Independent Television network, funded by advertising, would affect the future career opportunities of a radical documentarist who had not yet directed a feature film. The resulting article may well have been addressed to them rather than to a general readership:
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Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund (1979), The Inquisition in Hollywood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).
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Ring Lardner Jr. (2000), I’d Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir (New York: Nation Books), p. 140.
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Steve Neale (2003), “Pseudonyms, Sapphire and Salt: ‘Un-American’ Contributions to Television Costume Adventure Series in the 1950s”, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 245–252.
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Steve Neale, ‘Pseudonyms, Sapphire and Salt’, p.
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Ring Lardner Junior, I’d Hate Myself in the Morning, p. 142.
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Eaton, M. (2016). Notes from Sherwood. In: Hedling, E., Dupin, C. (eds) Lindsay Anderson Revisited. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53943-4_7
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