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  1. At the Coal Face (2003)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £17.99

    Two films from the 1940s on coal mining - THE CUMBERLAND STORY and RHONDDA AND WYE - combined on one tape.

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  2. Yesterday’s Britain: Capital Transport (2003)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

    A compilation of four films that show changes in London transport from 1947 - 1983.

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  3. Close Quarters (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (75 min), £14.99 inc

    A 1943 feature-length propaganda documentary about routine British submarine patrols and action in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Based on a true story, using real Royal Navy submariners as the cast....

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  4. Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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  5. Protect and Survive (1976 Video)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 93 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    In the 1970s the British government secretly prepared a series of information films to tell the public how to prepare for nuclear war. They would be shown on television if a nuclear exchange seemed...

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  6. Out of True (1951 Film)

    Subject
    Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A drama made to encourage sympathetic understanding of the problems of mentally ill people. A young wife is upset by the presence of her mother-in-law living in their overcrowded flat, and attempts suicide....

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  7. Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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  8. Steps of the Ballet (1948 Video)

    Director
    Muir Mathieson
    Producer
    Alexander Shaw
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 30 min.

    Explains the principles of ballet, and the stages involved in mounting a new work. Robert Helpmann explains how a new ballet is produced and Elaine Fifield demonstrates the position of the arms and other...

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  9. Defeated People, A (1946 Film)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About the government of the British-occupied zone of Germany. Problems of the physical and moral rehabilitation of Germany are discussed.

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  10. Diary for Timothy, A (1946 Film)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...

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