1980s Hackney Captured In These Vibrant Photos
From One Day Off in Hackney, 1984 © Rio Cinema Archive "This is the city. In the city there are many stories, and the Rio is one of these." Thus runs the founding manifesto of the Rio Tape/Slide Newsreel Group. Something rather groundbreaking was brewing in 1982: the Rio in Dalston — London's first community-led cinema — gave a group of Hackney residents some recording equipment, so they could capture local life — which would then be played in as audio-enhanced slide shows before the main screening. As one contributor put it, this was a reinvention of those Pathé News reels of old. Fr...
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