SHOP TO LET (screen test fragment) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SHOP TO LET (screen test fragment) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 804-99
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  • Summary: Screen test fragment of educational film for young servicemen facing demobilisation at the end of the Second World War warns a typical young couple keen to open a shop that retailing is more complicated than it seems.
  • Description: Test section has estate agent (Lionel Gamlin), standing in empty shop to let, warn a young airman facing demobilisation and his wife that retailing is more complicated than it seems. The sound boom, and the shadow of a hand, intrude into frame at the end of the exchange between the inexperienced performers.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: UKY 804-99
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Gamlin, Lionel James1903-04-301967-10-16 (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: demobilisation, British (object name) economics, British - employment (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 195 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UKY 804-99

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    UKY 804 (SHOP TO LET [Main Title])
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