Learning on ScreenChange for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s,
- Synopsis
- 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 declining and emerging industries; work and umployment; housing, health and education; media, leisure and advertising; consumerism. Films included are Alberto Cavalcanti’s COAL FACE (1935), NEWS BY WIRE (1939), Humphrey Jennings’ SPARE TIME (1939), and excerpts from TODAY WE LIVE (1936), HOUSING PROBLEMS (1935), 40 MILLION PEOPLE (1936/1940), and A VISIT TO SUNNY SURREY (1935)
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min.
- Year of production
- 1994
- Availability
- Sale; 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)
- Documentation
- Accompanying 37-page A4 booklet and work cards.
- Uses
- National Curriculum Key Stage 2 and above.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- history of the 20th century; United Kingdom
Sections
- Title
- 40 million people
- Title
- News by wire
- Title
- Today we live: a film of life in Britain
- Title
- Visit to sunny Surrey, A
Production Company
- Name
University of Warwick
- Phone
- 024 7652 4252
- Fax
- 024 7652 3883
- Address
- Coventry
CV4 7AL
Sponsor
- Name
Post Office
Distributor
- Name
Any Other Business
- Phone
- 01926 423782
- Fax
- 01926 423782
- Address
- 6 Regency House
Newbold Terrace
Leamington Spa CV32 4HD - Notes
- See: Any Other Business
- 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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