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1962: Bristol's Bonfire Kids | In View | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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29:48Now PlayingIn View follow a gang of Bristol teenagers who call themselves the 'Bashers'. The gang prepare for bonfire night by building up the fire with wood, they even sleep in the middle of the pile to guard it from rival gangs.
The bonfire gives these young people a sense of purpose, something which is often otherwise lacking in their derelict area of Bristol.
Camera Operators: James Saunders, Maurice Fisher, Ewart Needham
Sound Recordist: James Caulfield
Sound Mixer: Jack Robottom
Film Editor: George Inger
Written and Directed by: Michael Croucher and Martin Shuttleworth
Clip taken from In View: The Bashers Build a Bonfire, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 31 October, 1962.
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