Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984)

Film details

Featuring

Colin Martin Christine Cox Gail Mcintyre
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1984
Genre

Documentary
Type

Film
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

A documentary which looks at the process of rediscovering women's history using the 1915 Glasgow rent strike as a focal point. The rent strike which took place during World War I was a protest aginst Glasgow landlords who were exploiting the war situation. The women of the tenements and the Glasgow Womens' Housing Association, including Jean Ferguson, Mary Barbour and Helen Crawford, organised a vigorous protest which forced the Government to take action. The film celebrates this victory and presents for discussion some of the problems in attempting to rediscover women's past achievements.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - voice of teacher
    
    Colin Martin
  - voice of narrator
    
    Christine Cox
  - voice
    
    Gail Mcintyre
  - voice
    
    Clive Russell
  - voice
    
    John Huw Parry
  - on-screen participant
    
    Jessie Findlay
  - on-screen participant
    
    Kathy Mailer
  - on-screen participant
    
    Margaret Young
  - on-screen participant
    
    Sadie Fulton
  - on-screen participant
    
    Elspeth King
  - on-screen participant
    
    Mary Barbour
  - on-screen participant
    
    Jessie Barbour
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Jenny Woodley
  - Director
    
    Christine Bellamy
  - Production Company
    
    Sheffield Film Co-op
  - Production manager (live action)
    
    Joanna Brown
  - Production Assistant
    
    Lil Coppin
  - Researcher
    
    Jenny Woodley
  - Researcher
    
    Christine Bellamy
  - Photography
    
    Caroline Spry
  - Additional Photography
    
    Caroline Laidler
  - Rostrum sequences
    
    Begonia Tamarit
  - Rostrum sequences
    
    Christine Bellamy
  - Rostrum sequences
    
    Angela Martin
  - Rostrum camera
    
    Begonia Tamarit
  - Lighting
    
    Anne Cottringer
  - Additional lighting
    
    Sarah McCarthy
  - Assistant Photographer
    
    Christine Wilkinson
  - Editor
    
    Jenny Woodley
  - Title Design
    
    Fi Francis
  - Music composed and performed
    
    Fish and Plume
  - Music Recording
    
    Geoff Lyth
  - Sound Recording
    
    Moya Burns