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  1. Warwork News. No 37 (1943 Film)

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    History
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    Film (16mm)

    'Warwork News’ is a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. 1) ‘Food for thought’: a long item on factory canteens. The high nutritional value of...

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  2. Warwork News. No 38 (1943 Film)

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    Film (16mm)

    'Warwork News’ is a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. Here, Mussolini is seen after rescue by Germans from captivity. Some Italian troops fighting...

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  3. West Indies Calling (1943 Film)

    Director
    John Page
    Producer
    Paul Rotha
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A group of West Indians, led by writer Una Marson and the test cricketer Learie Constantine, assemble at Broadcasting House to describe the contribution made by them to the war effort. West Indians, of all...

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  4. Desert Victory: The Battle of El Alamein (1943)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Producer
    David MacDonald
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £14.99 (QL/retail)

    Documentary, with some re-enacted material. Official British war film. The story of the British Eighth Army’s victory at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, and its advance across nearly 1400 miles of desert...

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  5. Tunisian Victory (1943 Video)

    aka: Why we Fight - Tunisian Victory

    Producer
    Roy Boulting; Frank Capra; Hugh Stewart
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £15.99

    Official British war film. Covers period from 8th November 1942 to May 1943 - the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis. In 1942 the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war thus far...

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  6. Dustbin Parade (1942 Film)

    Producer
    Edgar Anstey; John Taylor
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A cartoon on the need to collect scrap metals for use in the war production effort.

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  7. Next of Kin (1942 Film, Video)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The most powerful and realistic of all the ‘careless talk’ films. This feature film tells the story of a raid on a submarine pen on the North West coast of France. A well organised German spy ring, much...

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  8. Night Shift (1942 Film)

    Director
    Jack Chambers
    Producer
    Paul Rotha
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of one night’s work in an armament factory. Without commentary and with a minimum of dramatised conversation it presents a clear impression of factory life and the atmosphere of the time.

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  9. Rund um die Freiheitsstatue (1942 Film)

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    Film (16mm)

    Anti-American propaganda. Attacks moral degeneration, etc.

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  10. Soviet Newsreel No. 66 (September 1942) (1942 Film)

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    History
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    Film (16mm)

    Consists of 6 items:- the harvesting of grain in the Bogatov district; the production of cannon in an armaments factory in the Urals; the building of a blast furnace in a metallurgical factory in the Urals;...

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