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Stampex Exhibition

Date released

30 Mar 1975

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2391

NoS ID

030649

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stampex Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: A Philatelist dream come true, the Stamp Exhibition of 1975. Collecting rare stamps, has always been an innocent occupation, but some of the more...

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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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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30s Britain Volume 1: Granton Trawler (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Collection of five films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘Granton Trawler’ (1934) directed by John Grierson. About a trawler fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘Coal Face’ (1935) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. An...

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Midsummer Day’s Work, A (1939 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

During the ominously perfect summer that preceded the outbreak of the World War 2 men are laying an underground telephone cable in the Chilterns from Amersham to Aylesbury, about 18 miles. Along the route...

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Britain in the Thirties

Director

Edgar Anstey; Vivian Brau; Alberto Cavalcanti; Arthur Elton; Humphrey Jennings; London Kino Group; Len Lye; Richard Massingham; Norman McLaren; Basil Wright

Subject

History

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Mony a Pickle (1939 Video)

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min.

A slightly tongue-in-cheedk comedy on the theme of thrift, which was made for the Scottish Post Office Savings Bank. It is divided into an introduction and five short episodes, the most ambitious of which...

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Squadron 992 (1940 Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 26 min.

In response to a request for a film that showed the importance of balloon barrage, Harry Watt made this drama-documentary about the training of a balloon squadron and its first assignment to the Forth...

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Men of the Lightship (1940 Video)

Director

David MacDonald

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

'Year in, year out, all round our coasts, the beam of the lightship shines through the night and its siren pierces the fog banks. Light and fog signals reach vessels of all nations equally, and for three...

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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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