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NoS Summary - Women workers pick tea leaves at the Emperors plantation in Japan. British Pathe synopsis: "Even as you and I, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, drinks tea. But very particular tea,...
Dakotas fly over Brussels, delivering supplies for troops in Holland. Superficially Brussels seems "normal" but film of wrecked trains, rail-yards and factories suggests "the hangover of war". Communist...
NoS Summary - Harvesting cranberries in North America. British Pathe synopsis: Various shots of the Cranberry harvest somewhere in North America. "Cranberry picking, like golf, is an open-air game - but...
The provision of good meals in canteens for workers. Meat and other foods in store-houses. The preparations of food. Invasion leaders, Eisenhower and Churchill, inspect men of armoured units. Preparations...
NoS synopsis: "Fertile Rhine valleys, waiting for the vineyard people to gather a rich juicy harvest." L/S of vineyards. Various shots of men with large baskets on their backs climbing around on the rocky...
NoS Summary - making Turkish Delight - end shot of woman sampling some. Pathe synopsis: Factory making Turkish Delight. Shows complete process as women workers make Turkish Delight. Mixing, pouring, cooling...
Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action. 1: Argues that...
BFI synopsis: A survey of the cotton industry. Opening shots of merchant ships whilst commentary emphasises that to balance the economy more cotton goods must be produced, sold and exported. Diagram shows...
In the high forests of northern Trinidad, a rich and varied habitat, two kinds of ant have adopted contrasting ways of making a living. The driver ants are wandering hunters which scour the forest floor for...
A collection of war-time documentary shorts depicting the lives of women and children. Evacuees, land girls, factory workers, doughty countrywomen confronting Nazi paratroopers, and the Women’s Institute...
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