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  1. Fairy of the Phone, The (1936 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

    A comedy with musical sequences including an opening song featuring a chorus of telephonists. The script was based on page 6 of the 1936 London telephone directory - instructions to subscribers on how to use...

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  2. Rainbow Dance (1936 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Gasparcolour. 4 min.

    A mixture of live action an animation in which the actions of a live dancer combine with shimmering colour fantasies to illustrate the advantages of saving. The message is: ‘The Post Office Savings Bank...

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  3. London Pride (2006)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £19.99

    A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Includes: LONDON CAN TAKE IT, THE PROUD CITY, LONDON AIRPORT, MOVING...

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  4. 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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  5. Nine for Six (1939 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. col. 8 min.

    The Meadowhead School football team lose their ball immediately before their match with the council school, Bromford. They get the Bromford team to bring a ball with them by sending a nine-word telegram...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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