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  1. Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

    aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

    Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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  2. Eighty Days, The (1944 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A picture of the intensive V-1 attack on Southern England in June 1944, of the destruction of the flying bombs by the combined efforts of the Anti-Aircraft, Balloon and Fighter Commands, and of the damage done.

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  3. Coastal Command (1942 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col 73 min.

    A dramatised wartime documentary presenting the work of the officers and the ordinary men and women of the Coastal Command in the RAF. Follows the fortunes of the Sunderland Flying Boat T-Tommy as it patrols...

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  4. Words for Battle (1942 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Beta SP. b&w. 8 min.

    The idea behind the film was to set great passages of prose and poetry relevant to the great struggle of World War 2 against scenes of Britain. Quotations are derived from Camden’s ‘Britannia’, Milton,...

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