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Keeping the Wheels Turning: Women and Children at War 1939-1945 (1942 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 72 min., 2004 sale: £18.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A compilation of seven short films produced by the Ministry of Information on the activities of women and children whose lives were affected in various ways by the World War 2. Focuses on women in factories,...

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Hitchcock at War (1944 Video)

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25, 31 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Two propaganda films made by Alfred Hitchcock for the Ministry of Information at the Welwyn Studios with French cast and crew. The films were made quickly (both were shot between 20 January and 25 February...

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Wales, Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942 Film)

Director

John Eldridge

Producer

Donald Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...

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Ounce of Protection, An (1981 Film, Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Veterinary science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shot on a 16-hectare Suffolk pig farm with some 2500 animals, shows how, with good husbandry and strict attention to hygiene, disease prevention security and monitoring of breed stock, the farmer can keep...

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Listen to Britain (1942 Film, Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Stewart McAllister

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the roar of Spitfires and tanks, the noise of furnaces and factories, the march of miners and soldiers, music and songs...

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Tunisian Victory (1943 Video)

aka: Why we Fight - Tunisian Victory

Producer

Roy Boulting; Frank Capra; Hugh Stewart

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £15.99

Official British war film. Covers period from 8th November 1942 to May 1943 - the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis. In 1942 the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war thus far...

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Coi Collection: Vol 1 - Police and Thieves (2010)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

The first volume in a series of DVD compilations of films made by the Central Office of Information. Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of...

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Foul Brood: Its Recognition and Control (1984 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Veterinary science

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min.

Explains the American foul brood (AFB) and European foul brood (EFB) diseases, which are the most serious bacterial infections of brood, or immature-stage, bees, and shows MAFF control measures. Normal...

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Coi Collection: Vol 2 - Design for Today (2010)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for producing thousands of films which celebrated Britain, its people...

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These Are the Men (1943 Film)

Producer

Donald Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This film is almost unique in British Second World War film propaganda. Whereas films like HEART OF BRITAIN and BRITAIN AT BAY stress the importance of those qualities of British life that would be destroyed...

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