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  1. Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: BEF for France

    Date released
    2 Oct 1939
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    539
    NoS ID
    010297
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: BEF Leaves England. DESCRIPTION: Troops and equipment are embarking for France. SHOTLIST: Lorries, motor-cycles and kit are swung aboard and then the men themselves embark carrying...

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  2. News for the Navy (1937 Video)

    Director
    Norman McLaren
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    The story concerns Evelyn, who sends a newsaper to her fiancé Bert Higgins AB, who has gone to sea on the ‘HMS Incredible’. On her mother’s advice she risks a penny-ha’penny stamp and addresses the...

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  3. City, The 3 (1939 Video)

    Director
    Ralph Elton
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w?. 19 min.

    Sir Charles Bressey talks about the Bressey Report and urges its implementation. The film also illustrates the growth of london since the late 19th century, the work of the ministry of Transport Research...

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  4. Real Picture, The: Films and the Post Office (1993 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

    A history of the GPO Film Unit.

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  5. Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: The Duke of Gloucester

    Date released
    2 Oct 1939
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    539
    NoS ID
    010296
    Story no
    3 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: BEF Leaves England. DESCRIPTION: Is going to France as Chief Liaison Officer with Lord Gort. SHOTLIST: The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Lord Gort pose together before the two men...

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  6. Song of Ceylon (1934 Film)

    Director
    Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The traditional customs of the island of Ceylon are contrasted with the demands of western commerce. In four parts: 1) THE BUDDHA, deals with the legendary coming of Buddha to free the natives from their...

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  7. Coal Face (1935 Video)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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  8. Job in a Million, A (1937 Video)

    Director
    Evelyn Spice
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min.

    Not many employers in the 1930s offered a secure job with a pension at age sixty, so there was always a queue of boys hoping to become messengers at the Post Office. Proud to be among the successful...

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  9. 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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  10. Tocher, The (1938 Video)

    Director
    Lotte Reiniger
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 5 min.

    A fairy-tale ballet silhouette as a means of promoting the Post Office Savings Bank. Music consists of Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten.

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