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In the 1980s, Hackney was one of the most deprived parts of the UK,
its citizens ignored by Margaret Thatcher's new vision of Britain.
But at Dalston's Rio - London's oldest community cinema - the
Tape/Slide Newsreel Group was giving unemployed local youth a
voice. Set up in 1982, it taught photography and sound-recording
skills, and championed an alternative, left-wing perspective on
Hackney life. In 2016, thousands of slides were found in a filing
cabinet in the Rio's basement, a legacy of this ground-breaking
project. The book presents the best of the slides that were shown
in newsreels before the main feature at the Rio, alongside
recollections of the Tape/Slide Newsreel Group participants. This
important oral history places the photos in the cultural and
political context of Hackney in the 1980s, meaning that, unlike
some photobooks about East London, it is connected to the
communities it portrays and remains true to the original radicalism
behind the Tape/Slide Newsreel Group. There are introductory essays
by Andrew Woodyatt (of The Rio), about the cinema's activities in
the 1980s, and by Alan Denney (the photographer and local historian
who digitised all the slides) putting the archive into the context
of the contemporary movements in radical community photography,
plus forewords from Michael Rosen and Zawe Ashton. The archive is
presented chronologically and themes include: activism, parades and
protest marches; art, culture, music and festivals; social problems
and community action; street life and style; urban landscapes and
dereliction; work and everyday life; young and old.
Children with extraordinary psychic powers are being used as pawns
in a deadly supernatural war. Jasmine "Jazz" Tandy and her
nine-year-old son Chaz, who can heal people with his touch, are
fleeing from a ruthless organization that kidnaps these children.
Children such as Kaylee Daley, who can control and manipulate plant
life, and Mara Fleming, who can see into the future. Their only
hope for salvation is a covert group called the Guardians, who
protect these children from the organization's merciless hunters.
Dr. Larssen Sossnacher, the organization's leader-called
"Soulsnatcher" by the remarkable children he abducts and
exploits-believes Chaz is the miraculous prodigy who will grant him
the immortality he craves... and he'll stop at nothing to get Chaz.
Cody Jackson, a Guardian and martial arts and weapons expert,
rescues Jazz and Chaz from Soulsnatcher's hunters and takes them to
Homestead, a safe haven where the children learn to use their
powers to help others. But Soulsnatcher's hunters raid Homestead
and battle the Guardians in a surreal deadly showdown-with the
souls of all the children as the ultimate prize.
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