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  1. 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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  2. Tyneside Story (1943 Film)

    Director
    Gilbert Gunn
    Producer
    Michael Hankinson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A dramatized account of the re-opening for war production of Tyneside shipyards that had been closed down by the Depression. The workers express their hopes that the pre-war slump will not return. With the...

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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. In Which we Live; Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself (1943 Film)

    Director
    Richard Massingham
    Producer
    Lewis Grant Wallace

    Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...

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  5. Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

    Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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  6. Keeping the Wheels Turning: Women and Children at War 1939-1945 (1942 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 72 min., 2004 sale: £18.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A compilation of seven short films produced by the Ministry of Information on the activities of women and children whose lives were affected in various ways by the World War 2. Focuses on women in factories,...

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  7. Life Begins Again (1942 Video)

    Director
    Donald Alexander
    Producer
    Paul Rotha
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 19 min.

    A threshing machine at work on a farm - Joe Green, one of the workers falls and breaks his arm. On a London street a man is knocked down by a car and taken to hospital with a broken leg. These are the kinds...

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  8. Listen to Britain (1942 Film, Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Stewart McAllister
    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    'The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the roar of Spitfires and tanks, the noise of furnaces and factories, the march of miners and soldiers, music and songs...

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  9. They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942 Film)

    Subject
    Economics; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Stresses the importance of repairing existing civilian vehicles as a means of shielding new vehicle production for military priority and shows the ability of women to take on this sort of work. It also...

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  10. Wales, Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942 Film)

    Director
    John Eldridge
    Producer
    Donald Taylor
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...

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