Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
20-ті роки XX століття, світова економічна криза. Луї і Еміль — два ув’язнених приятеля, які змушені працювати на місцевому виробництві, збираючи іграшки. Одного разу Луї, за допомогою Еміля, вдається втекти, і він починає нове життя, швидко піднімаючись по кар’єрних сходах від продавця до власника великої фабрики. Тільки от на самій фабриці драконівські порядки, а робота службовців автоматизована настільки, що перетворює їх у роботів, які ходять на роботу як у в’язницю…
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.
Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sponsor was horrified by the music and suspicious of the way a worker was shown winking at the camera; although Rhythm won first prize at a New York advertising festival, it was disqualified because Chrysler had never given it a television screening. P. Adams Sitney wrote, “Although his reputation has been sustained by the invention of direct painting on film, Lye deserves equal credit as one of the great masters of montage.” And in Film Culture, Jonas Mekas said to Peter Kubelka, “Have you seen Len Lye’s 50-second automobile commercial? Nothing happens there…except that it’s filled with some kind of secret action of cinema.” - Harvard Film Archive
Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.
A factory worker works with monotonous work, but suddenly something happens that changes the situation.
From the West Midlands to West Africa: tour the Phillips bicycle plant in Smethwick and see the products in action overseas.