{"id":2158,"date":"2017-10-24T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:23:29","slug":"peter-watkins-and-the-playcraft-film-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/peter-watkins-and-the-playcraft-film-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"PETER WATKINS AND THE PLAYCRAFT FILM UNIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public screening of the documentary, &#8216;Peter Watkins and the Playcraft Film Unit&#8217; (2017) by Tim Jones.<br \/>\nThis documentary focuses upon the five amateur films produced between 1957 and 1962 by Peter Watkins and Playcraft, a Canterbury-based amateur drama group. These amateur films proved to be vital in the development of Peter\u2019s directorial approach, use of historical reconstruction and newsreel style, which would later feature in his Academy Award winning film, The War Game.<br \/>\nThe documentary provides a unique insight into the making of Peter\u2019s amateur films and his early development as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Watkins\u2019s Ten Best winning amateur film, \u2018The Forgotten Faces\u2019 was also shown.<\/p>\n<p>Public Screening at Canterbury Christ Church University on 6 May 2017<\/p>\n<p>For more information please see:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/create.canterbury.ac.uk\/cgi\/users\/home?screen=EPrint%3A%3AView&#038;eprintid=16017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public screening of the documentary, &#8216;Peter Watkins and the Playcraft Film Unit&#8217; (2017) by Tim Jones. This documentary focuses upon the five amateur films produced between 1957 and 1962 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Tim Jones","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"A public screening of the documentary, &#8216;Peter Watkins and the Playcraft Film Unit&#8217; (2017) by Tim Jones. This documentary focuses upon the five amateur films produced between 1957 and 1962 [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/cafa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}