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mraltariel

Films!

Oct 24, 2009 17:59

This weekend, with A. being away, I'm watching a vast batch of War Office Training films from WWII. I'm quite impressed. Not only are they socially interesting (especially the "find yourself a job after the war" one, with 3 chaps and a woman making use of the employment exchanges), and made by the usual suspects (a lot of Michael Balcon, ( Read more... )

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mraltariel October 24 2009, 20:57:37 UTC

I've got one about the docks in the batch I'm currently waiting for from Amazon. I've just watched a fabulous film from the Paris uprising (yer actual actualite). We've always made a point of reading all the little signs about who was where, when, and this rather brought it all a bit closer to home.

Does this sort of thing happen in Cumbernauld a lot?

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mraltariel October 24 2009, 21:10:41 UTC

Chain monster is v. scary. V. V. SCARY.

toft_froggy October 25 2009, 06:00:42 UTC

Bullshit! What?! Shocking.

This is very interesting. Where do you get these films?

mraltariel October 25 2009, 10:36:10 UTC

I KNOW! I'm still shocked this morning.

The Imperial War Museum has released loads and loads of this sort of Crown Copyright material on DVD, so you can buy it on Amazon.

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mraltariel October 25 2009, 10:37:07 UTC

I shall put on my investigating hat and go and explore the city centre this morning, to see if I can see which *unnamed foreign power* is responsible.