Liverpool Premiere Of Pensioners United Tonight
The Liverpool premiere of ‘Pensioners United’ is tonight at the Plaza cinema in Waterloo. The film features the campaigns and observations of inspirational pensioners from Liverpool and the East End of London. Also featured in the film is veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith and the late Tony Benn. If you are aged 60 or over you can see the film free as long as you turn up to the cinema between 6:30 – 45pm today. Details are here: Pensioners United.
Below are some publicity photographs used to promote the film and some stills from the film itself.
The film features the campaign to save the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
NHS campaigner, Sam Semoff, who sadly died earlier this year is interviewed in the film. Pensioners United is dedicated to the memory of Sam.
The film covers the RMT dispute to keep the guards on the trains.
Members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association supporting the campaign for decent pay and conditions at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Campaigner Harry Leslie Smith talks about life in the 1930s before the NHS.
Members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association supporting the campaign for decent pay and conditions for McDonalds workers.
The late Tony Benn talks about the NHS in an unseen interview recorded in 2007.
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All the best for your premiere – hope it’s a very successful evening!
Best of wishes for your premiere tonight – hope it goes really well!