Objects Under Surveillance - Katy McGahan and Sue Woods - Video

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Objects Under Surveillance - Video

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Katy McGahan and Sue Woods, Curators of Non-Fiction Film at the British Film Institute (BFI) discussed the different ways that films related to policing and surveillance come to be part of the national collections. Woods discusses the process of acquiring and preserving films, then McGahan talks about two films that the BFI holds, the 1935 Evidence, believed to be the first police surveillance film in the UK, and film footage used in the trial related to "Bloody Sunday" (1972).