1. Lindsay Anderson, John Fletcher, Walter Lassally, Karel Reisz, ‘Free Cinema Six: The Last Free Cinema’, National Film Theatre programme notes, March 1959.
2. The term is borrowed from Don MacPherson (ed.), Traditions of Independence: British Cinema in the Thirties (London, 1980).
3. See the excellent study by Stephen G. Jones, The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918–1939 (London, 1987).
4. Paul Rotha, ‘Films and the Labour Party’ (1936), in Ian Aitken (ed.), The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 1998), p.178.
5. For example Rachael Low, The History of the British Film 1929–1939: Films of Comment and Persuasion of the 1930s (London, 1979), p.166.