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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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Danger Uxb (1940 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Two films combined on one videocassette.

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New Britain, The (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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Home Front Britain with Jim Carter (2011)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ruby Grierson; Jack Lee; Brian Desmond Hurst

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £19.99

The six-part documentary series, Home Front Britain With Jim Carter, looks at the British home front during World War II. Presented by British actor Jim Carter, the series explores the archives of British...

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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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Britain Can Take It (1940 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

'The film was a collaboration by the whole unit. Everything else stopped for it’ Harry Watt has said. ‘I think I wrote the script. At least I wrote it down, but let us say it was a communal script. It...

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Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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Grayson Perry Double Bill: Why Men Wear Frocks, Spare Time (2014)

Director

Neil Crombie

Subject

Art; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £7.99

In WHY MEN WEAR FROCKS Grayson explores his compulsion to dress as a woman, talking candidly about his own experiences and how he reconciles this aspect of his character with his roles as artist, husband and...

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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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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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