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American Business Propaganda Films 1910 - 1960 (1910)

Subject

Business studies; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 510 minutes), $14.95

This 2-DVD box set contains 39 American business propaganda films made between 1910 and 1960. Titles include: A LOOK AT CAPITALISM (1955) - lecture by Professor Clinton L. Ganus; OFFICE ETIQUETTE (1950);...

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Visions of Africa: Colonial Cinema I. Films from Central Africa, 1940s - 1960s (2012)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during the 1940s, 19550s, and 1960s. Contents include the following films: Mary’s Lucky Day (Lux toilet soap commercial); The Box...

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Radio Gallery: Programme 6 - Propaganda (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies

This exhibition explores the uses of the radio as a tool for propaganda during times of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ war. It begins in World War II with a compilation of German and Italian propaganda aimed at...

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Russia Under Soviet Power (1977 Video)

Director

John Macpherson

Producer

Paul Dukes

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Attempts to make use of one of the propaganda techniques developed in revolutionary Russia, the animated poster. Six actors declaim the messages of Reds and Whites from a constructivist set and those scenes...

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Mr Punch’s History of the Great War (1982 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col.

The collection of some of the more telling cartoons that appeared in the pages of ‘Punch’ during the World War 1 War illustrates the persuasive power of the cartoon, particularly in wartime. As a tool of...

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Hitler’s Olympia - The Nazi Olympics 1936 (1936 Video)

aka: Olympische Spiele

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 204 min., 1995 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the president of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the 1936 Berlin games, which were being staged by Goebbels as a giant propaganda exercise. Using 44...

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Secret, The (1918 Film)

Director

E P Kinsella; Horace Morgan

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

One of the Ministry of Information propaganda trailers that were distributed through commercial newsreel companies and reached a massive audience. This one discloses how to make suet dumplings without...

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War You Don’t See, The (2010)

Subject

History; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £6.00

John Pilger’s film is a powerful investigation into the media’s role in war. It traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of...

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First Casualty, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Peter Mosley

Producer

Peter Mosley

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'The first casualty when war comes is truth ...', and this film shows how British people at home were reluctant to believe the stories of Nazi atrocities, having been fooled once before when World War 1...

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Images of America 1937-1939 (1996)

Producer

Peter Bell

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £60.00

Illustrates the various ways in which British newsreels on the eve of World War 2 presented propaganda concerning the USA’s international role. Drawing on the archives of Gaumont British, British Movietone...

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