Before Hindsight

Synopsis: An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939 from the newsreel archives of British Movietone, Gaumont British, Pathé, Paramount and Universal; also the archives of the Socialist Film Council and the left-wing Film and Photo League; and the ‘March of Time’ series. Movietone commentator Leslie Mitchell explains that newsreels were then regarded as innocuous programme fillers; James Cameron comments on the reluctance of the newsreel to alert the public to the dangers of Fascism.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Film. 16mm. sd. b&w/col. 81 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1977
Availability: Hire
Subjects: History; Media studies
Keywords: Fascism; media reporting; Nazi Germany; newsreel films

Director

Producer

Cast

James Cameron
Leslie Mitchell

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