Title: | Jemima and Johnny | |
Director 1: | Lionel Ngakane | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 1966 | |
length: | 28 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | b&w | |
Genre: | short film, drama | |
Screenwriter: | Lionel Ngakane | |
Cinematographer: | Brian Probyn | |
Editor: | David Gladwell | |
Producer: | Robert Angell | |
Production company: | Knight Film | |
Cast: | Nicolette Robinson, Patrick Hatfield, Tommy Baptiste | |
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 34 | |
Synopsis: | The film is told from the perspective of two children, a girl from Jamaica and a white boy who has grown up in London. Against their families' racial prejudice, a friendship develops between the two, and together they explore the world which surrounds them. The film is one of the first British productions made by a black filmmaker. | |
Keyword 1: | white | |
Keyword 2: | black | |
Keyword 3: | children | |
Keyword 4: | Notting Hill | |
Keyword 5: | London | |
Keyword 6: | 1960s | |
Keyword 7: | racism | |
Keyword 8: | prejudice | |
Keyword 9: | mixed-race relationship | |
Text Reference 1: | Black Independent Film in Britain: Historical Overview | |
Text Reference 2: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s |
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