Seeing Red

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Title

Seeing Red

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Directed by Annie Goldson (Brother Number One), this 1995 TV documentary explores the story of Cecil Holmes, who won Cold War notoriety in 1948 when he was smeared as a communist agent, while working as a director for the National Film Unit. This excerpt — the opening 10 minutes — revisits the infamous snatching of Holmes' satchel outside Parliament, his Palmerston North upbringing, war service, and the founding of the Government's National Film Unit. There are excerpts from a 1980 interview ...

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Video

Date created

1995

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/seeing-red-1995

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national film unit / psa / public service association / nfu / satchel / postwar / cold war / communist / miramar / walter nash / basil holmes / cinema / regent cinema / night mail / john grierson / peter fraser / documentary / jonathan dennis / wartime / country lads / propaganda / nationalism

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