Ken Loach Save the Children Film - Commentary more

This article, published in the house journal of the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL) is aimed at a primarily non-academic readership of archivists, footage researchers and technicians.  It discusses the ethical issue raised by the preservation and recent screening of a documentary made by Ken Loach in 1969, commissioned by the charity Save the Children (STC) in order to promote its work.  Upon completion, STC believed that the film portrayed them negatively, and the resulting court case ended in the film being preserved by the British Film Institute, but suppressed completely from public access.