Look Around: 25.08.1961: Voluntary Exiles

Summary

Film inserts for a television programme about immigration.

Year:

1961

Duration:

0:09:26

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Section one: clips from an unidentified documentary showing black workers in factories and working on plantations (all shot in Africa).

Section two: Reg Harcourt interviews the Chief Minister of Jamaica, Norman Manley, who is visiting Birmingham. He is asked about overcrowding amongst West Indians living in Birmingham and his views on immigration controls for people entering Britain. He doesn't think that an immigrant should be required to have a job to go to and is against controls on entry. He says that such controls would be seen as a 'colour bar'. He does however see improvements in race relations in the city since his last visit.

Section three: We see Manley getting in and out of an official car in Birmingham and meeting people in residential areas of the city (his visit took him to Balsall Heath and Handsworth).


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Jamaica became fully independent of the United Kingdom in 1962. Norman Manley (1893-1969) led Jamaica from 1955 until 1962. The Commonwealth Immigration Act of 1962 reduced the right of people from Commonwealth countries to settle in the UK.