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An example of the newsreels produced by Rotha’s company for the Ministry of Information. Shows dockers contributing to the battle of the Atlantic; the effects of losing park railings for scrap metal; the...
A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in...
A cartoon on the need to collect scrap metals for use in the war production effort.
Over a pint of beer in a pub and while surveying the historical sites of London from the top of the Monument, Leslie Howard discusses with an Australian, a Canadian and a New Zealander why they have left...
Attempts to convey the enormous capacity for endurance that ordinary people had during the war when faced with seemingly intolerable situations. Of special interest because it looks at the whole country’s...
A recruiting film for factory work. An attractive upper-class lady heeds the call, leaves her boring typing job, goes on a government trining course, learns how to use tools and read blueprints and then...
Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...
A recruitment film for the Home Guard. (`It might make Hitler think twice’). A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school. He describes the...
A dramatised account of a fictional encounter between a German spy and two sisters, Caroline and Edith Grant, designed to show what precautions can be taken to hinder any infiltration or invasion by the...
Made for the Ministry of Information to show how accurately the figures for destroyed enemy aircraft were compiled and checked. The film has no technical credits apart from that of the GPO Film Unit itself....
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