The Time of Our Lives
A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.
From the archive
Originally airing on September 21, 1989 on KCET in Los Angeles, this Emmy-winning special discusses how the passage of time affects everyday lifestyles, from daily body rhythms to seasonal affective disorder, jet lag, to how the accidents at Bhopal, Chernobyl and Valdez were affected by various circadian cycles.
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The Time of Our Lives (1994) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Michael Grigsby
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