Barbican, 1969

This Barbican film from 1969 is full of character, curious English wit and surprising angles. We see lots of the pedway, the City's streets in the sky network, as well as glimpses of the City's new offices, the Golden Lane estate and the Barbican centre as it was being built (the arts centre didn't open until 1981).

With fantastic cinematography by Harold Case, a veteran of many short films on sixties subjects such as the hovercraft, direction by Robert Cantelon, and fruity dialogue written by Frank Harvey ('Now it's all women in mini-skirts!'). Perhaps the most interesting contributor is the composer, Elisabeth Lutyens, daughter of architect Edwin Lutyens. Despite a career composing hundreds of pieces of modern classical music, she remains more well known for creating horror movie scores for Hammer and Amicus, and films such as Dr Terror's House of Horror, The Earth Dies Screaming and Theatre of Death.

Despite writing about this film in Concretopia, thanks to @nawtisnae for reminding me that I had never posted this classic documentary on the site.