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This four-week course will be held on Thursday evenings from 6.30pm - 9.00pm. It starts on 21st November and ends on 12th December.

In the 1930s the British film industry was at its most prolific, with new quota regulations guaranteeing more feature film production than ever before. The most ambitious studios, such as Gaumont-British and London Films, attempted to rival Hollywood with lavish dramas and musical comedies. At the other end of the scale, many smaller studios churned out ultra-low budget ‘quota quickies’, which still provided a great training ground for new talent. In this new course we will profile four important directors from this period that deserve to be better known - John Baxter (the Ken Loach of the 1930s, an extraordinary auteur of working-class drama), Victor Saville (elegant director of lavish musicals and sumptuous melodrama), Robert Stevenson (a master of high-spirited action adventure) and Bernard Vorhaus (the maestro of the quota quickie). The course will be illustrated with numerous extracts and complete feature films.

Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.