Learning on ScreenFront Line, The
- Synopsis
- Dover, 15th September 1940: for three months the town has been a frontier target for the Reich but the spirit of the people is undaunted. ‘There was only one hotel left in existence in Dover’, Harry Watt remembers, ‘and stationed at that hotel were the vultures of Europe - the American correspondents who had seen Czechoslovakia fall, Poland fall, Belgium fall, Holland fall. And they were there to see the fall of Britain...'.
- Series
- Britain at War: The First Days
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 6 min.
- Year of production
- 1940
- Availability
- Sale
- Notes
- See: BRITAIN AT WAR: THE FIRST DAYS for availability on compilation videocassette.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- Dover; World War II
Credits
- Director
- Harry Watt
- Contributor
- Frank H ‘Jonah’ Jones
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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