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1939 - 1945
Fires Were Started (1943)
London is burning in this classic wartime account of the blitz during Luftwaffe bombing raids. Fires Were Started is a dramatised paean to the men and women of the Auxiliary Fire Service made by the Crown Film Unit during W.W.II.and
directed by Humphrey Jennings. This film is considered, along with Listen to Britain, to be Jennings' masterworks of the wartime phase of his career
Fires Were Started is no gung-ho propaganda piece: it simply records the everyday lives and acts of courage
of seven fire-fighters and their new recruit over a fictional 24-hour period. The film begins during the day as the unit gather
from their varying walks of life at the fire station, prepare their apparatus, participate in training, inspect the daytime
bombing damage caused in London, and socialise together as night begins to fall. The sound of an air-raid siren and anti-aircraft
fire signals the beginning of the bombing raid, and promptly the unit is called out to attend to some incendiaries that have
fallen on a warehouse. We follow the firemen as they fight the blaze through the night until day breaks and the all-clear
sounds.
This Happy Breed (1944)
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Ealing Studios' diverse and fascinating
WW II propaganda films
Gainsborough Pictures.
lives of women during World War II
Ealing Studios
When the oil tanker San Demetrio
is hit by enemy fire, the crew
abandon ship. But after several days
adrift in a lifeboat, some of
the crew find theship miraculously
still afloat. With courage and
determination they
steerthe tanker home.
this is one incredible film to watch
highly recommended
Ealing Studios
this film was among the last of
Ealing's wartime films to take
the conflict as its subject - by 1943,
the war was already on the turn,
and the Blitz could be remembered
with a tinge of pride, as an early
challenge that was seen through
with courage and fortitude.this
film is a fictional counterpart to
Humphrey Jennings' Fires Were Started
highly recommended
Gainsborough Pictures
The inhabitants of a
women's internment camp
in Nazi-occupied France
put aside their social differences and
band together in solidarity against
their captors
Gainsborough Pictures.
London 1940: Tillie Colter, lonely
during her husband Jim's army service,
falls for the local charmer Ted Purvis,
who has dodged the army. Jim
discovers the relationship and
deserts the Army to return home.
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Worker and War Front
(1942-1946)
Ministry of Information-sponsored
World War II workers' newsreels
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introduction
1942
News items about workers' rations,
desert war equipment, etc.
1942
News items about dockers, scrap
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Warwork News
(1941-1945)
Sponsored by the Ministry of Supply,
it was released
fortnightly for
distribution in factories.
the introduction
1942
News item about Allied military
operations in Dieppe.
1943
News items about women war workers
and supply convoys
1943
News items about shipbuilding,
Burma, the Pacific and Sicily
1943
News items about factory canteens,
Italy and the Cairo conference
1944
News items about Mussolini, the Italian
campaign and factory workers' health
1944
News items about Italian pipelines and
Ulster's wartime contribution
1944
News items about bombing Germany
and a talk by Montgomery
1944
News item about Churchill visiting the
Allied front in Normandy
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