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Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

1986 · 1 season

A thoughtful, interview-driven look at overlooked women, warm with archival detail and quietly indignant about the barriers they faced.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
How it feels
Earnest, warm and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Gender, work, art, class
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
period
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism10
Romance1
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

Cast

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Esther Ronay, Jo Ann Kaplan
Starring
Miriam Margolyes, Sylvia Syms, Kay Mander, Jill Craigie, Wendy Toye, Phyllis Calvert, Mandy Miller, Janette Scott
Length
1 seasons, 3 episodes
Network
Channel 4
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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