Commedia
About this Organisation
Community media organisation based in Edinburgh.
This was the trading name I used from 1984 when I first became self-employed in making videos with community groups around Lothian. When I stopped being self-employed I set up the Film & Video Access Centre in 1986, an organisation which provided training and access to film and video-makers in Edinburgh. In 1993 I also set up Young People Speak Out, an outreach organisation running video projects across Lothian with disadvantaged young people. Both Film & Video Access Centre and Young People Speak Out closed in 2005, after I departed to work as Regeneration Officer at Edinburgh City Council.
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Contacts
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Mr Pete Gregson
Producer
peter.n.gregson@outlook.com
Tel: 07584722191
Organisation Type
Resources Available
| Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Radical Reekie |
A video chronicle of social and political developments in Edinburgh from 1900 to 1940, looking at the rise of Labour and the city's many protest movements. Using photos from Edinburgh People's Story and National Museums, it also reviews the Temperance Movement, Women's Suffrage, World War I, the General Strike, hunger marches, the rise of Fascism, the Spanish Civil War and "Protestant Action ... read more |
Primary, Secondary, Online/Digitised, Sound, Images/Photographs, Film |
| An Asian Family in Ediniburgh |
This video came from a slide-tape made with Akbal Singh who had a shop in Gorgie back in 1985. The film “An Asian Family in Edinburgh” took two years to make and was funded out of the Producer's pocket. Later the Council used it in schools for multicultural education. It came about because the young people the Producer was working with (also in Gorgie) were repeating National Front lies about ... read more |
Primary, Secondary, Online/Digitised, Sound, Images/Photographs, Film |
| It’s Changed Days Now, Right Enough |
East Lothian aural history slide-tape on farming, fishing, and mining. People whose families have lived and worked in East Lothian for generations compare life as it was then with life as it is now. A multi-projector slide-tape transferred onto video, photographed and directed by David Halliday of Film Workshop Trust in 1981 with sound production by Pete Gregson. This film ... read more |
Primary, Secondary, Online/Digitised, Oral, Sound, Images/Photographs, Film |
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