We Are the Lambeth Boys

Since 1949, Karel Reisz (1926) has worked as a freelance author and a film critic. In 1953 his book The Techniques of Film Editing, written for the British Film Academy, was published. By then he was working as a programme director with the National Film Theatre, the institute that has been the context of a brief but powerful period in British film history: the Free Cinema.
One of the most well-known examples of the Free Cinema is we are the lambeth boys, made by Reisz in 1959 by order of the Ford Motor Company, that was sponsoring a documentary series about life in England. The film features the members of a London youth club, and follows some of them at school, at work and at other locations. A leitmotif in the film is formed by a discussion among the youth about capital punishment.