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  1. Front Line, The (1940 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 6 min.

    Dover, 15th September 1940: for three months the town has been a frontier target for the Reich but the spirit of the people is undaunted. ‘There was only one hotel left in existence in Dover’, Harry Watt...

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  2. King’s Stamp, The (1935 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 20 min.

    Shows the designing, lithographing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp. A short history of postage stamps is dramatised with scenes about Rowland Hill and the reactions of the general...

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  3. John Atkins Saves Up (1934 Video)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 18 min.

    The clerk John Atkins puts five shillings into the Post Office Savings Bank every week of his life. He is a very careful fellow who keeps his summer clothes in mothballs and never forgets to shut the gate...

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  4. 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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  5. Spare Time (1939 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 14 min.

    Showing how workers in three industries (steel, cotton and coal) spend their spare time, this film is famous as the first intimation of Humphrey Jennings’ unique style. Jennings had been involved in mass...

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  6. First Days, The (1939 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    This earliest of notable British wartime documentaries was a collaborative effort in the direction of which both Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings played parts. The editing and the use of sound represents the...

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  7. 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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  8. Change for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s, (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Video-based teaching pack looking at British life in the 1930s through archive film, textual data and personal accounts. Contains contemporary archive footage from the GPO Film Unit. The five units cover...

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  9. Night Mail/West Highland (2004)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 minutes), £19.99

    A compilation of two classic films on steam trains

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  10. Saving of Bill Blewitt, The (1937 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

    A fiction film, made in the documentary style, about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another. Harry Watt has described how he was told to make a film about saving,...

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