JOURNEY TO A VICTORY [Main Title]

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  • Title: JOURNEY TO A VICTORY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 192
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  • Summary: Using interviews, narration, quotations from literature, authentic war-time film and recent film, the question is asked "what were Englishmen thinking in September 1939?".
  • Description: Were the English asking "would this war be over by Christmas" or like St ExupĂ©ry that "war is ....a disease", or like Shaw that there was nothing for it but to "go for him" (Hitler)? "Voices of soldiers and officers" from East Anglia (only officers in fact) including Brigadier G W A Peters 1939-45. A tribute to "the infantryman" is made and the following locations and events are mentioned: training at Colchester, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, Le Havre, " the island" of Holland, the Winter War, re-entry of Arnhem, Buchenwald and Belsen, George VI's broadcast on VE Day. Illustrative film is mainly of infantrymen. Finally, the childrens' children of these who fought and died can play in fields and woods "secured for them by the valiant".
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MGH 192
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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  • Production Date: 1964
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Anglia Television (Production company) Taylor, Forbes (Production individual) Aldous, Harry (Production individual) Robson, Michael (Production individual) Robson, Michael (Production cast)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1100 ft; Running time: 30 mins
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