Learning on ScreenMidsummer Day’s Work, A
- Synopsis
- 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 gangs are working, labouring in the sun in rural surroundings - the cottage where Milton finished ‘Paradise Lost’ and the eighteenth century Adam residence of the descendants of Sir Francis Drake. There is no director credited on the film, and there might have been none on location. James E. Rogers, who shot two of Cavalcanti’s avant-garde films in France in the late twenties and later introduced Cavalcanti to Grierson, was a distinguished freelance cameraman, and Jonah Jones was one of the two who filmed ‘NIGHT MAIL’ in 1936.
- Series
- Britain in the Thirties. Vol 2
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.
- Year of production
- 1939
- Availability
- Sale
- Notes
- See: BRITAIN IN THE THIRTIES VOL 2 for availability on compilation videocassette.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- England; World War II
Credits
- Contributor
- Frank H ‘Jonah’ Jones; James E Rogers
Production Company
- Name
GPO Film Unit
Distributor
- Name
Post Office Film & Video Library
- poes@edist.co.uk
- Phone
- 01795 426465
- Fax
- 01795 474871
- Address
- c/o Post Office Education Services
PO Box 145
Sittingbourne
Kent
ME10 1NH - Notes
- Contact: Barry Wiles
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