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The 1951 Festival of Britain is mostly remembered for the South Bank Exhibition in London, and this slide set contains views of the exhibition and many of its buildings and structures (including the Dome of...
Images from the Design Council Slide Collection illustrating the use of design within the South Bank exhibition site of the 1951 Festival of Britain through some of the lesser known architecture and other...
Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain was portrayed in the early 1950s: 1) The Wonder Jet (1950, 19 min): In 1926 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle (who appears in...
A compilation of four films, three of them commissioned for the Festival of Britain. BRIEF CITY (d. Richard Massingham. COI, b&w, 1951) and LONDON IN FESTIVAL YEAR (COI, col, 1951) cover the capital’s...
Two films about the Hawley oil refinery on Southampton Water in Hampshire. REFINERY IN MINIATURE (1951, B&W, 9 mins 35 secs). In 1950, as thousands of workers descended on Fawley to build a new refinery, a...
A collection of films in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Features the last films made by Humphrey Jennings - FAMILY PORTRAIT, and Richard Massingham - BRIEF CITY, written for the Observer by...
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