AROUND THE COTSWOLDS [Main Title]

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  • Title: AROUND THE COTSWOLDS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6449
  • Other titles: AMATEUR FILM BY ERNEST HART [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Amateur film travelogue shot by Ernest Hart and friend on cycling tour through Cotswold region of Southern England shows village and agricultural scenes within a twenty-five radius of Cheltenham, while incidentally recording the impact of the Second World War on this prosperous area: "Salvage for Victory" sign, Women's Land Army girls, US Army soldier posing with his English sweetheart in uniform for a photograph, London evacuee girls, gipsy girl nursing baby, two American ladies supervising the WLA , Italian prisoners of war harvesting and driving tractor near Painswick, and scenes at Bristol docks.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: AMATEUR FILM BY ERNEST HART [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MGH 6449
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Hart, E W (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 4 Footage: 1593 ft; Running time: 59 mins (18 fps)
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