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Archive Film – Propaganda and Spanish Civil War, GFT

4 November, 2018 – 7.10 p.m.

Scottish Catalan Film Festival CinemaAttic 2 – 5 November, 2018 Glasgow.

To celebrate a new edition of Scotland Catalan Film Festival, CinemaAttic collective has gathered a special programme with rare films from Filmoteca de Catalunya, National Libraries of Scotland Moving Image Archive and British Film Institute National Archive.

Glasgow May Day 1937
Film for the Clarion Film Society. Members are involved in the Glasgow May Day procession, filming the march for “fallen comrades” in the Spanish Civil War.

Behind Spanish Lines – 35mm
Left-wing documentary films about the Spanish Civil War.

The Coastal Cork Makers (Laya Films, 1937)

Spain up to date. Special Edition (Laya Films,1937)

Catalonia Martyr (Laya Films, 1938)

Laya Films was the Catalan Government’s production company during the Second Spanish Republic. Its documentaries were weapons in the fight against fascism.

Introduced by David Archibald, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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