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  1. Story of an Air CommuniquÉ, The (1940 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 7 min.

    Made for the Ministry of Information to show how accurately the figures for destroyed enemy aircraft were compiled and checked. The film has no technical credits apart from that of the GPO Film Unit itself....

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  2. Worker and Warfront. No 3 (1942 Film)

    Director
    Duncan Ross
    Producer
    Paul Rotha
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An example of the newsreels produced by Rotha’s company for the Ministry of Information. Shows dockers contributing to the battle of the Atlantic; the effects of losing park railings for scrap metal; the...

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  3. Dustbin Parade (1942 Film)

    Producer
    Edgar Anstey; John Taylor
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A cartoon on the need to collect scrap metals for use in the war production effort.

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  4. Danger Uxb (1940 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Two films combined on one videocassette.

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  5. They Also Serve (1940 Film)

    Director
    Ruby Grierson
    Producer
    John Taylor
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A tribute to the British housewife. Set in the format of a day in the life of a ‘typical’ household, shows how the housewife/mother has in her own way contributed much to the war effort. Unlike many of...

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  6. Tyneside Story (1943 Film)

    Director
    Gilbert Gunn
    Producer
    Michael Hankinson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A dramatized account of the re-opening for war production of Tyneside shipyards that had been closed down by the Depression. The workers express their hopes that the pre-war slump will not return. With the...

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  7. Eighty Days, The (1944 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A picture of the intensive V-1 attack on Southern England in June 1944, of the destruction of the flying bombs by the combined efforts of the Anti-Aircraft, Balloon and Fighter Commands, and of the damage done.

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  8. They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942 Film)

    Subject
    Economics; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Stresses the importance of repairing existing civilian vehicles as a means of shielding new vehicle production for military priority and shows the ability of women to take on this sort of work. It also...

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  9. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: Special Archival Edition (2017)

    Producer
    Sidney Bernstein
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £29.99

    This is the first ever DVD / Blu-ray release of Imperial War Museum’s German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. This hugely important film documents the liberation of Belsen and other concentration camp...

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  10. Life Begins Again (1942 Video)

    Director
    Donald Alexander
    Producer
    Paul Rotha
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 19 min.

    A threshing machine at work on a farm - Joe Green, one of the workers falls and breaks his arm. On a London street a man is knocked down by a car and taken to hospital with a broken leg. These are the kinds...

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