abstract:Black Arrow is a Disney television film filmed in 1984 and released in 1985, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses. It was a Panatlantic Pictures release directed by John Hough, who had directed a filmatisation of another Stevenson novel in 1972, Treasure Island.
It is the 40th anniversary this October of the final BlackArrow flight from the Woomera range in Australia and the UK's abandonment of its satellite launch capability.
Photographs are black and white, and colours are stark and monochromatic, illuminating the swastika-like arrow cross of the Fascists and the red star of the Communists.