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Date released

1944

Series name

Airfront Gen Operational Supplement

Issue no

3

NoS ID

000013

Story no

2 / 3

Bomber Command activities illustrated by: 8 August, Lancasters bomb railway bridge at Etaples; 12 August, Lancasters attack U-boat pens, harbour and adjoining naval school at Brest; 14 August, large-scale...

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Armistice: The Endgame of World War One

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

Professor David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the events and personalities involved in the Armistice which brought the First World war to an end in 1918. In a journey that takes him through command centres...

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Royalty Honour ‘Hamlet’ Premiere (1948 Film)

British newsfilm. "Their Majesties Princess Elizabeth and Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh attended the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier’s ‘Hamlet". People seen on screen at the premiere of HAMLET...

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The Historic Surrender

Date released

17 May 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1483

NoS ID

039572

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Reims General Bedell-Smith, Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff, receives Unconditional Surrender from General Jodl. Berlin Air Marshal Tedder represents western allies at ratification ceremony. Marshal Zhukov...

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First Command Performance of Romeo and Juliet (1954 Television)

Series

You Are There

Director

Sidney Lumet

Producer

James D. Fonda; Charles Russell

A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns December 26 1597 when Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was selected by Queen Elizabeth I...

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Liberation of Greece

Date released

13 Nov 1944

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

185

NoS ID

156347

Story no

1 / 1

November 1944. Operations on the Albanian coast. Landing craft approach and stores and ammunition are unloaded. The first British ship arrives at Corfu. Partisans and civilians of the town welcome British...

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London Can Take It: The British Home Front at War

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £12.00

Seven wartime films looking at the city of London, specifically life during the Blitz. Includes Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s LONDON CAN TAKE IT (1940).

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Into Germany

Date released

9 Apr 1945

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

205

NoS ID

156390

Story no

1 / 1

US First Airborne Army carries equipment to the east bank of the Rhine at Wesel. Tug men and glider crews are briefed. Gigantic landing craft used. Churchill, with Eisenhower, Montgomery and Alan Brooke,...

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This is a Recording: Audio Innovation Film DVD (2005)

Subject

Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 180 minutes), $9.99

A compilation of seven classic audio innovation films Of The 1940s & 1950s

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Audio Recording History Compilation (2011)

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Technology

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 240 minutes), $14.49

A compilation of 8 classic audio innovation films of the 1940s and 1950s, redigitised and included on 2 DVDs. Contents: A REVOLUTIONARY NEW TRIUMPH IN TAPE (1958, 14:54)- Before the diminutive audio...

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