Pretend You'll Survive
Nuclear nightmares realised in cartoon form by a Yorkshire women's collective that advocates protest over pointless preparation
Protect and survive? This activist cartoon from a Yorkshire women's collective argues that the Government's public information message on preparation for a nuclear attack is just a pretence. The only way to survive was to protest against such an outcome ever happening. The film also make a connection with the potential for an environmental catastrophe through the use of nuclear power.
The roots of the Leeds Animation Workshop began in 1976 when a group of women came together to make Who Needs Nurseries? - We Do! Over forty years on and they are still going as an all women's co-operative, releasing They Call Us Maids: The Domestic Workers' Story in 2015.
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Women of Animation
16 videos in this collection
Mildred
The Dirt Inside
Children of Wax
Pretend You'll Survive
Green Men, Yellow Woman
Two Faces
Slug Life
Little Tom Thumb
Childhood Memories
A Short Vision
The Candlemaker
Robinson Charley
Your Very Good Health
Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard