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  1. Shakespeare Vs Hitler: Henry V and War Propaganda in Laurence Olivier’s and Kenneth Branagh’s Films (2023 Video)

    Recording of a live streamed seminar held in Italy but spoken in English, featuring Professor Arturo Cattaneo and moderated by Valentina Foschi. Cattaneo focuses on the versions of Henry V made by Laurence...

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  2. Diary for Timothy, A (1946 Film)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Basil Wright

    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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  3. 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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  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. 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

    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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