She used moving cameras, frequent close-ups of the wide-eyed party faithful and heroic shots of Hitler taken from ground level.
In Scotland, the half of the population that supports UK-wide parties is now represented by just three MPs.
Then European social preferences can be debated the way they are within every nation, through European-wide parties and parliamentary elections that will take on real significance.
The dream of a European demos nourishing a pan-European democracy based on Europe-wide parties is more distant than ever.
Back in 1979 it was a perfectly logical idea to suppose that direct elections to the European parliament would gradually create Europe-wide parties, politics, media and eventually a European demos.
"Scots then looked like making a habit of split-ticket voting," explains Martin Boon, of ICM Unlimited, "favouring a strong nationalist presence in Edinburgh, while continuing to regard Westminster elections principally as a choice between the UK-wide parties.
Mr. Butcher retired as chief executive in the 1970's and moved to Colorado, although he frequently flew back for sales meetings and the company-wide parties, picnics and barbecues that Butcher is known for.
In Scotland, the half of the population that supports UK-wide parties is now represented by just three MPs First past the post is a system that tends to produce Commons majorities by exaggerating party support in some places and suppressing it others.
There is a PhD thesis to be written on why the party of tradition can make space for women, while UK-wide parties of the centre and the left (except the Greens) have still not elected a female leader, let alone a prime minister.
Yet this is certainly a moment for new politics, and the Lib Dems are the only one of the three large UK-wide parties that deserves to be called democratic and whose conference is not from beginning to end a stitch-up.
In a letter to party leaders, the media organisations say they are now offering to move forward the date of a proposed debate by a few days to 26 or 27 March – before the start of the short campaign – again inviting the leaders of the five main UK-wide parties – the Conservative party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Ukip and the Greens.
