A New Generation (1998)

Film details

Featuring

Patrick Robinson Darcus Howe Valerie Amos
Director

David Upshal
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1998
Type

Television
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

Documentary series chronicling the experience of West Indians in Britain following mass immigration. 3 of 4: This programme describes the difficulties faced by the early migrants' children in defining themselves culturally. Were they British or not? Many of the problems of this generation stemmed from negative school experience. As the feeling of alienation grew, young black people, influenced by the rising tide of black assertiveness in the States, came into conflict with the police. The Notting Hill protest of 1971 has become a lasting landmark of in the story of community-police relations and resulted in a trial in which those charged were finally acquitted.

A confrontation at the Notting Hill Carnival in 1976 reinforced ideas of black criminality and the National Front took advantage of the situation to create anti-immigrant feeling.

In January, 1981, 13 black youngsters died in a fire in a house at London's New Cross Road. No one was ever charged and victims found themselves the targets of police suspicion. When fifty thousand people marched into Central London to peacefully protest at the way the tragedy had been handled, the media represented the event in a negative manner.

Although the Seventies was a period of intense cultural change for young black Britons, in which Caribbean music icons such as Bob Marley, Lee `Scratch' Perry, and Linton Qwesi Johnson entered the mainstream, the programme ends by asking if the repeated pattern of police action and violent reaction will set the pattern of race-relations for the future.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - narrator
    
    Patrick Robinson
  - interviewee
    
    Darcus Howe
  - interviewee
    
    Valerie Amos
  - interviewee
    
    Lee Jasper
  - interviewee
    
    Stuart Hall
  - interviewee
    
    Ross Howells
  - interviewee
    
    Sybil Phoenix
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    David Upshal
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Pepper Productions
  - Produced for
    
    BBC
  - Executive Producer (Pepper Productions)
    
    Charles Armitage
  - Executive Producer (BBC)
    
    Mike Flood-Page
  - Producer
    
    David Upshal
  - Series Producer
    
    Trevor Phillips
  - Associate Producer
    
    Anne Mensah
  - Production Manager
    
    Lesley Mckirdy
  - Production Co-ordinator
    
    Rosie Everett
  - Production Accountant
    
    Mike Amos
  - Archive Research
    
    Judy Patterson
  - Researcher
    
    Sharon Channer
  - Researcher
    
    Jessica Fisher
  - Researcher
    
    Beverley Hopwood
  - Researcher
    
    Louise Runge
  Photography:
  - Photography
    
    Doug Hartington
  - Photography
    
    Dave Swan
  Special Effects:
  - Graphic Design
    
    Turnround
  Editing:
  - Film Editor
    
    Michael Duly
  - Film Editor
    
    Jane Greenwood
  - On-line Editor
    
    Grahame Gibson
  Music:
  - Title Music
    
    Gary Crosby
  Sound:
  - Sound Recording
    
    Tony Burke
  - Dubbing Mixer
    
    Nick Mottershead
  Consultant:
  - Series Consultant
    
    Ben Bousquet
  - Series Consultant
    
    Mike Phillips
  - Programme Consultant
    
    Richard Adeshiyan