An International Filmic Language?

After the best part of a decade (the 1970s) of being involved with film-making and film-training in Africa (in Ethiopia and Kenya, and subsequently in Ghana), and other international media consultancy work, I wrote this 8 page article for Sight and Sound, which was published in Spring 1979. Some of the issues raised are still relevant, even in this age of international broadcasting , the internet and digital TV.