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Non Comms Greetings

Date released

7 Jan 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

396

NoS ID

382692

Story no

3 / 8

NoS synopsis: British and French soldiers shake hands in Christmas greetings for the camera

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Dancing A Jig

Date released

22 Oct 1914

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

374

NoS ID

382557

Story no

4 / 7

NoS synopsis: A soldier, in mechanic’s overalls, dances a ‘cake-walk’ style of show dance

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Total War Extract (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The speech by Goebbels in Berlin in February 1943 proclaiming a ‘total war’ policy following the Stalingrad defeat.

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Cooking The Xmas Dinner In France

Date released

7 Jan 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

396

NoS ID

382696

Story no

7 / 8

NoS synopsis: British Army cooks prepare food

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Not for Glory

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Battle of the Somme (1916 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 132 minutes), £19.56

Battle of the Somme is a pioneering battlefield documentary that was seen by huge audiences in the UK when it was released in August 1916, barely a month after the events it depicted. Cinema-goers hailed it...

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A Wayside Shrine In Belgium

Date released

7 Jan 1915

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

396

NoS ID

382695

Story no

6 / 8

NoS synopsis: French soldiers armed with rifles light up pipes and cigarettes while they pause outside a wayside shrine.

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Home Front 1939-1945, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 90 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

First-hand accounts from 15 men and women who lived in Britain during the Second World War including sections on the outbreak of war, evacuation, domestic conditions, war effort, air raids and VE Day.

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Home Guard (1941 Film)

Director

Donald Taylor

Producer

Donald Taylor

A recruitment film for the Home Guard. (`It might make Hitler think twice’). A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school. He describes the...

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Day in the Life of a Munition Worker, A (1917 Film)

Subject

Technology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the various jobs performed by women at the Woolwich Arsenal. Stresses the measures taken to protect workers’ health and ends with a somewhat superficial medical examination.

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