TOMORROW IS THEIRS [Main Title]

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  • Title: TOMORROW IS THEIRS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 241
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  • Summary: Secondary Education in Wartime.
  • Description: First half shows the "Emergency Schools" which cater for non-evacuated pupils, combining a town's schools. Laboratory and classroom scenes, as boys are taught chemistry, maths, art, geography, woodwork, PT Wartime changes include women teachers in boys school, and use of erasable blocks to save paper, but film claims communal spirit is still achieved, and academic standards maintained - boys sit School Certificate. Second half shows an evacuated girls' school; country surroundings give new dimension to lessons, and call for practical domestic science work (house decorating, cooking). Girls also shown doing needlework for war effort; secretarial training; and entering shelter trenches in playing field during an air-raid alarm.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: UKY 241
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-12
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Board of Education (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Strand (Production company) Carr, James (Production individual) Shaw, Alexander (Production individual) Elton, Arthur19061973-01-01 (Production individual) Osbiston, Alan (Production individual) Groves, Reg (Production individual) Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon19031984 (Production cast)
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  • Keywords: propaganda, British - inspirational (object name) society, British - education (object name) society, British - precautionary (object name) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 878 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UKY 241

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