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Western Approaches (1944 Film, Video)

Director
Pat Jackson

Producer
Ian Dalrymple

Subject
History

Distribution
Film (16mm)

A story of the Atlantic convoys. Survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, adrift in a lifeboat in the Atlantic, are shadowed by a German U-boat waiting to torpedo the ship coming to their rescue. (Much of the...
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British Social Realism at the Movies

Date
12 Jun 2014, 09:49

Author
Sergio Angelini

Post Type
BUFVC Article

About the Author: Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It - The Making of the Epic Movie...
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Horsey Mail, The (1938 Video)

Director
Pat Jackson

Subject
Sociology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

When the sea wall at Winterton in East Norfolk gives way and Horsey village and many outlying farms become islands in the water, it is more difficult for postman Claude Simmonds to make his daily round. Van...
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Night Mail - The Gpo Story (2013)

Director
Harry Watt; Basil Wright

Subject
Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £20.41

This release includes THE GPO STORY (1986), BBC Arena’s tribute to the Unit featuring many of the original filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat...
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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director
Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject
Film studies; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...
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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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Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

Director
Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings

Subject
Film studies; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...
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