ABSTRACT
The post-war era ended for the British cinematograph industry almost indeterminately during 1952 and 1953. The Labour Government fell and the Conservatives were returned to power. The sympathies of cinema people had veered long ago towards the left—in certain instances far to the left. The documentary movement had proclaimed its radicalism, and had certainly made some contribution to the defeat of the Churchillian Government in 1945. Film society cinéastes often disclosed an attachment to the left. And in the trade itself several independent cinema owners as well as studio technicians had declared their preference for red as a policital colour.
