Director: Derek Jarman
Release Date: February 1978
In Derek Jarman: a biography, by Tony Peake, 1996, it is noted that filming took place ‘principally around Southwark, Rotherhithe and Victoria Docks’ while the ‘production was based at Butler’s Wharf’, Shad Thames. Peake also mentions that while ‘the film was made (late June to mid-August)’ [1977] ‘the first sequences were already in the can. Having seen a street he wanted to use and hearing that it was about to be demolished, Jarman had taken advantage of the Whit weekend’ to get his filming done. This appears to be a reference to the sequences showing Blackwall Lane and Grenfell Street, Greenwich.
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A decaying Britain is depicted in the view from Blackwall Lane, Greenwich, into Grenfell Street.
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Unidentified. Richard O'Brien on some anonymous waste land but the flats to the right may have survived.
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The view from the stalls as 'Rule Britannia' is is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Adam Ant on the Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens.
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As Ant sits on the Albert Memorial he looks over to the Royal Albert Hall.
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The view south along St. Saviour's Dock, Southwark, as Toyah Willcox, Nell Campbell and Jenny Runacre prepare to throw a body into the dock.
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Ant and a friend in Green Park discussing music. Buckingham Palace is presented as a recording studio where they later record.
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Unidentified. Ian Charleson, Karl Johnson and Linda Spurrier block the view of the street sign.
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Neil Kennedy seeing off his visitors, Spurrier, Johnson and Charleson, from his home, with the blue door, at 364 Rotherhithe Street.
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Unidentified. The view before Johnson describes his childhood to Ant. Presumably the church could be a clue.
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Unidentified. The camera pans to the right. Presumably the L.C.C. style flats, at right, may have survived.
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Unidentified. As Charleson looks on Johnson speaks to Ant. The church could be a clue.
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Charleson announces a concert from Cathedral Piazza, as Runacre looks on, with Victoria Street behind the tree.
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The camera reveals that the concert is to take place at Westminster Cathedral.
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The camera pans down to street level.
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A car, with passengers including Jack Birkett and Luciana Martinez, exiting Carlisle Place into Ashley Place, Westminster.
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Birkett and Martinez standing in Ashley Place with Morpeth Terrace to the left and Carlisle Place to the right.
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Mill Street, Southwark, as a performance involving barbed wire is played out. The orange cafe is also on the corner of Dockhead.
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Unidentified. Donald Dunham on an anonymous looking bus route.
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Unidentified. Dunham being followed by Jordan and Willcox.
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Unidentified. A suburban looking street as Runacre arrives.
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Unidentified. The other side of the street as Runacre takes off.
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David Haughton speaks from the steps of the Ionic Temple in the grounds of Chiswick House.
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Uncertain, but this appears to be the view west along Bermondsey Wall West as Birkett is driven away from London.