Pisarek Family Archive
collection | Pisarek Family Archive |
authors | Walery Pisarek |
length | 05'06 |
location | Great Britain |
format | 8 mm |
color | black and white |
signature | PAFD 0005 005 |
source of funding | Ministry of Culture and National Heritage |
description |
Walery Pisarek was a well-known linguist, media expert and popularizer of science. He bought a camera in the early 60s, during a business trip to Hungary, where he went as the artistic director of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Nowa Huta community centre. A film from a trip abroad, shot during a business trip of the author, who at that time did not go abroad personally. This is a film postcard from London at the turn of the 60s and 70s. Double-decker buses, horse police, Trafalgar Square, Guards Crimean War Memorial, Piccadilly Circus, Portobello Road with the famous flea market: stalls with clothes, musical instruments, paintings, ceramics, street musicians, fashion of the late 60s, finally, which is not surprising due to the professional interests of the author, a newsstand. (CN)
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keywords | London; United Kingdom; bus; police; horse; Trafalgar Square; Guards Crimean War Memorial; Piccadilly Circus; Portobello Road; flea market; newspaper; media expert; science; linguist; business trip; conference; street musicians; ceramics; clothes; paintings; musical instruments |