''A Far Cry'' is a film about displaced persons in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
, following the Korean War (1950 - 1953). It was commissioned by the NGO
Save the Children Fund
The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic ...
UK and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC in 1959. It appears on the programme of two International Film Festivals in 2015.
How it came about
The Save the Children UK archive records:
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015 brochure adds:
The 1959 ''
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by J ...
'' account of the film gives more information:
The Melbourne International Film Festival 2015 brochure adds:
. . . and then
The film was a success. Save the Children continued using film to inform and fund-raise.
Stephen Peet subsequently made many more documentary films for BBC TV, with the series title ''Yesterday's witness''.
Sources
* BBC Genome project: Entry for ''A Far Cry'', indicating that the film was broadcast on 29-03-1959
accessed 13-06-2015
* British Film Institute website
accessed 13-06-2015
* National Archive: note of records held by Save the Children UK of the film work of the SCF Public Affairs Department.
accessed 13-06-2015
* Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Festival programme 30-07 to 15-08-2015: Festival Archive
http://miff.com.au/festival-archive/film/14395 accessed 15-06-2015
* International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 18–29 November 2015 - websit
accessed 13-06-2015
References
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Documentary films about South Korea
British documentary films
Documentary films about children in war
1959 films
1959 documentary films
Korean War films
Save the Children
1950s British films