Ken Loach: Radical film director’s personal archive made available to the public

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The BFI Reuben Library is making the personal archive of film director Ken Loach accessible to the public. The first part of the archive will be available next week, with the remainder released in stages, once it is documented and cataloged.

The archive includes scripts, notes, call sheets, photographs and research materials, and covers Loach’s early career working on BBC dramas, such as Z Cars, The Wednesday Play and the documentary The Rank and File, and the films Poor Cow (1967), Black Jack, and Looks and Smiles (1981).

For more information check here.

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Ken Loach’s copy of script for TV drama ‘Catherine’.

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Ken Loach – ‘Golden Vision’ Notebook, 1968.

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Script notes for ‘Misfortune’, 1973.

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Call sheet for ‘Poor Cow’

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Note on kestrel training for ‘Kes’.