Learning on ScreenBritain Can Take It
- Synopsis
- '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 was one night of the Blitz, from sunset to sunrise. The whole theme was how extraordinary it was that London went back to normality so quickly. We worked literally day and night’. The American journalist Quentin Reynolds, who presents it as a film despatch from London, took it straight to the White House where (under the title LONDON CAN TAKE IT) it gave Roosevelt the kind of material he needed to swing US popular opinion behind Britain in the war.
- Series
- Britain at War: Under Fire
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.
- Year of production
- 1940
- Availability
- Sale
- Notes
- See: BRITAIN AT WAR: UNDER FIRE for availability on compilation videocassette.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- Blitz, The; London; World War II
Credits
- Director
- Harry Watt; Humphrey Jennings
- Writer
- Quentin Reynolds
- Contributor
- Jack Lee; Stewart McACAllister
- Cast
Quentin Reynolds
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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