| Second World War Dig For Victory - The Ministry Of Food And The Battle To Feed Wartime Britain 1940 - 1944 snd6666 Food Convoy (1940) / Food From The Empire (1940) / Choose Cheese (1940) / Wisdom Of The Wild (1940) / Fighting Fields (1941) / Piping Hot (1941) / Dig For Victory (1941) / How To Dig (1941) / Emergency Cooking Stoves (1941) / Queen's Messengers (1941) / Canteen On Wheels (1941) / Eating Out With Tommy Trinder (1941) / Sowing And Picking (1941) / Filling The Gap (1942) / Making A Compost Heap (1942) / The Great Harvest (1942) / Twelve Days (1942) / The Harvest Shall Come (1942) / Willing Hands (1944) / Rationing In Britain (1944) / Bonus Feature - The Soldiers Food - Parts One, Two And Three (1941) / Bonus Feature - Field Butchery - Mutton / (1944) / Bonus Feature - Field Butchery - Bacon (1944) / Bonus Feature - Cookers In The Field (1942) / Bonus Feature - Food Related Wartime Public / Information Films / Bonus Feature - Food Flashes |
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| Second World War British Tanks Of The Second World War sna6674
Other adaptations to tanks included the ability to 'swim' and lay bridges -helping to maintain the flow of armour into the heart of the Reich. British Tanks Of The Second World War is the fascinating story of the design triumphs and adaptations that turned around the mismanagement, underproduction and technical inferiority of British tanks at the beginning of the war into a fearsome strike force that outfought the Panzer divisions and paved the way for Victory! Beach Obstacles(1943, 31 minutes) -A fascinating silent film illustrating the many ways adapted tanks can be employed to overcome passive beach defences -walls, wire-filled gullies, concrete 'egg' obstacles, steel tubes etc. Includes images of Churchill tanks with 'Carpet' laying equipment enabling troops to cross areas of densely packed barbed wire and customised Convenanter and Matilda with a variety of explosive charges. www.cherryred.co.uk |
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| Second World War Churchill The Man The Classic 1954 Pathe Documentary sna6665 The Other Side Of Winston Churchill (1960, 48 minutes) - An insightful and evocative colour film documentary based on Winston Churchill's book "Painting As A Pastime" and richly illustrated throughout with examples of his own artistic endeavours and archive newsreel of the major events and speeches given during his life. With contributions by Merle Oberon, Lady Rhoda Birley and Field Marshal Montgomery. Ninety Glorious Years (1964, 4 minutes) - A celebratory newsreel feature on the occasion of Churchill's 90thbirthday, this is a brief summation of his life story. This Was A Man (1965, 10 minutes) - The official British Pathe obituary. TOTAL RUNNING TIME - 90 Mins |
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| Second World War UXB - Unexploded Bombs On The British Home Front 1941-1944 sn6672 UXB (1941, 58 minutes) An investigation into the complexities of the tasks facing ARP wardens and wartime bomb disposal squads in their reconnaissance, reporting, prioritising and categorising of home front UXB incidents. How they look for traces of blast and examine the bomb's crater to discern whether it is a UXB scenario. We see the variety of German bombs extant in 1941 and how to identify them by the parts that might be found at a bomb site - tail fins, tail drums, cones, kopf rings, carrying bands and lugs. The further complications of the variety of fuses - impact, instant, delay action, booby trap, anti-handling - are also investigated in the context of defusing them with due regard to the civilian populations of the cities of wartime Britain. Techniques Of Bomb Disposal (1942, 108 minutes) A previously unrelased feature length dramatised documentary in which a bomb disposal squad headed by "Mr Ambrose" tackle a number of UXB scenarios in differing London locations - a 1000Kg bomb in Victoria Park, a 50Kg bomb in Richmond Park and a very delicate operation defusing a bomb lodged near the foundations of a factory crucial to the war effort. The intricacies of shaft and trench construction are shown and there's a fascinating look at the tools of fuse neutralisation by means of the 'clockstopper' - a heavy duty electromagnet and the 'steriliser' - a steam generator that melts out the main charge. Butterfly Bomb (1944, 2 minutes) A recognition film about the anti-personnel 'butterfly bomb' explaining how to idenitfy them with or without their wings and the procedures to follow on discovering them including the sandbagging technique. |
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| Second World War Hitchcock - The Wartime Resistance Films sn6555
Bon Voyage (1944, 25 mins, French language with English Subtitles) RAF Sergeant Dougall, freshly escaped from France, is debriefed by a Free French Deuxième Bureau officer in London. Dougall recounts how he - along with Stephan, a fellow escapee - contacted the resistance in Rheims, where he won the only available place in a plane pick-up. Dougall is surprised to find out that the officer is aware of a letter that Stephan has asked him to post in London. Bigger surprises are in store, however, when Dougall is told the full story. Aventure Malgache (1944, 30 mins, French language with English Subtitles) After Petain's historic broadcast in June 1940, the citizens of Madagascar gather to offer resistance to the Germans, but Michel persuades them to await Petain's orders. Clarus, an active resister, is betrayed and sentenced to life imprisonment. Michel - who is not what he seems - attempts to make a deal with him in order to discover the whereabouts of the resisters' transmitters and their code... Bonus Feature: Hitchcock In The News (2008, 8 mins) Catalogue Number: SN6555 |
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| Second World War Public Information Films of the British Home Front 1939-1945 9971015 An exclusive bonus feature, 'The Best of Post-War British Public Information Films 1946 - 1952', gives an insight into the concerns of the post-war world of reconstruction, including an emphasis on productivity for the export drive, the much-feared spectre of diphtheria, recruitment into the forces, the continuing importance of National Savings, and the huge danger of unexploded bombs left over from the war. Catalogue Number: 9971015 |
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