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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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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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Nampo No Tomo e (1943 Film)

aka: To South-East Asian Friends

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows foreign students from India, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines (a solitary German and a Frenchman are also conspicuous) studying and relaxing at a hostel of the International Student Fellowship at...

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Silent Village, The / This is Your Enemy (1943 Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Humphrey Jennings

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 75 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (combined videocassette)

A compilation of two World War 2 films: 1) THE SILENT VILLAGE (1943, producer, director, scriptwriter: Humphrey Jennings; editor: Stewart McAllister; photographer H E ‘Chick’ Fowle; produced by the Crown...

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These Are the Men (1943 Film)

Producer

Donald Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This film is almost unique in British Second World War film propaganda. Whereas films like HEART OF BRITAIN and BRITAIN AT BAY stress the importance of those qualities of British life that would be destroyed...

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Words and Actions (1943 Film)

Director

Max Anderson

Producer

John Taylor

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film about the need for total co-operation in wartime.

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Frank Capra’s Why we Fight (1942)

Director

Frank Capra

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 403 minutes), £24.99

Forceful propaganda on the aims of democracy contrasted with fascism. Liberties are taken with the material but a good example of the best resources of Hollywood directed towards propaganda and patriotic...

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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Cema (1942 Film)

aka: C.E.M.A.

Director

Desmond Dickinson; John Banting; Charles de Lautour; Alan Osbiston; Peter Graham-Scott; Dylan Thomas

Producer

Alexander Shaw

Subject

Drama

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...

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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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