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Christmas Under Fire (1941 Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

Quentin Reynolds’ second film despatch from London to America shows Christmas 1940, the year of the Blitz. By this time Ian Dalrymple was head of the GPO Film Unit which had been renamed the Crown Film...

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BECTU Membership Forms

Date

4 May 2018, 11:18

Author

BUFVC-user43468

Post Type

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What information do the membership forms contain? These are ‘Application for Membership’ forms which mean they record information about individuals at the point at which they applied to join the...

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Way from Germany, The (1946 Film)

Director

Terry Trench

Producer

Basil Wright

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Allies’ problem of how to deal with 18 million prisoners of all nations liberated on the fall of Germany.

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Gpo Story, The (1983 Film, Video)

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the GPO Film Unit. Tells the story of the Unit from its beginnings with the Empire Marketing Board, through to wartime documentaries of the Crown Film Unit....

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At the Coal Face (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £17.99

Two films from the 1940s on coal mining - THE CUMBERLAND STORY and RHONDDA AND WYE - combined on one tape.

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Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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I was a Fireman (1942 Film, Video)

aka: Fires Were Started

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

One day in the life of an Auxiliary Fire Service unit in the London Blitz. This is the full version of the cinema classic FIRES WERE STARTED, which captured the mood of a Britain under siege. Using real...

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Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Subject

Music

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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Protect and Survive (1976 Video)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 93 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

In the 1970s the British government secretly prepared a series of information films to tell the public how to prepare for nuclear war. They would be shown on television if a nuclear exchange seemed...

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London Can Take It (1940 Film, Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The story of the first night of the London Blitz, told in the form of a dispatch from an American correspondent.

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