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If war should come : the GPO Film Unit Collection. Volume 3 /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: BFIDVD760 | BFISeries: GPO Film Unit Collection ; v. 3Publisher: [London] : British Film Institute, [2009]Copyright date: ©2012 Description: 2 videodiscs (260 min.) : sound, black & white, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. The City (1939) ; The Islanders (1939) ; Spare Time (1939) ; A Midsummer day's work (1939) ; SS Ionian (1939) ; If war should come (1939) ; The first days (1939) ; War Library items 1, 2 and 3 (1940) -- Disc. 2. Squadron 992 (1940) ; La cause commune (1940) ; French communique (1940) ; The front line (1940) ; Men of the lightship (1940) ; Spring offensive (1940) ; The story of an air communique (1940) ; War and order (1940) ; Christmas under fire (1941).
Summary: "This volume covers the period 1939 - 1941 and sees the Unit at its most technically sophisticated. The 18 films in this collection provide an insight into a nation on the cusp of war and its transition to the brutal realities of life in the Blitz." -- Container.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02657 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050193118

Title from container.

Accompanied by 1 booklet, inserted in container.

Originally released as short films between 1939 and 1941.

"This DVD is a jointly fund project between BFI, Royal Mail, The British Postal Museum & Archive and BT."

Special features: "Britain Can Take It!"; interview with Pat Jackson; and 68 page booklet containing essays, selected biographies and film notes.

Disc 1. The City (1939) ; The Islanders (1939) ; Spare Time (1939) ; A Midsummer day's work (1939) ; SS Ionian (1939) ; If war should come (1939) ; The first days (1939) ; War Library items 1, 2 and 3 (1940) -- Disc. 2. Squadron 992 (1940) ; La cause commune (1940) ; French communique (1940) ; The front line (1940) ; Men of the lightship (1940) ; Spring offensive (1940) ; The story of an air communique (1940) ; War and order (1940) ; Christmas under fire (1941).

Exempt from classification.

DVD ; region 2 ; PAL.

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