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  1. Words and Actions (1943 Film)

    Director
    Max Anderson
    Producer
    John Taylor
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A film about the need for total co-operation in wartime.

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  2. King Richard II (1974 Film)

    Series
    Shakespeare Series, The
    Director
    Peter Seabourne

    Series of twelve educational films designed as ‘an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere’. This extract features sequences from Richard II featuring John of Gaunt’s deathbed speech (II i)...

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  3. Children at School (1938 Film)

    Director
    Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The entire field of British juvenile education is covered, including experiments being conducted in progressive schools. The nursery school idea is explained and the Dalton Plan and Montessori theories...

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  4. Movements of the Tongue in Speech (1944 Film)

    Producer
    D B Fry
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Designed to demonstrate to phoneticists movements of the tongue observed in an English speaking man who has had one cheek removed by an operation for carcinoma.

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  5. Macbeth (1971 Film)

    Series
    Shakespeare Series, The
    Director
    Peter Seabourne

    Series of twelve educational films designed as ‘an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere’. This extract features sequences from Macbeth - the witches’ prophecies (Ii, Iiii) and Macbeth...

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  6. Kill or Be Killed (1942 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 17 min.

    A story of a man-to-man battle of wits between an English sergeant and a German sniper. The film is a lesson in camouflage and stalking: it brings the atmosphere of war across by its emphasis on the two...

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  7. 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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  8. Face of Scotland, The (1938 Video)

    Director
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £15.99

    Seven films from the Films of Scotland Collection. All restored and produced from digitally transferred high definition masters for superb picture and sound quality. The programme comprises: Seawards the...

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  9. 40s Britain: Women and Children at War (2006)

    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

    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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