TOTAL WAR IN BRITAIN [Main Title]

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  • Title: TOTAL WAR IN BRITAIN [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 728
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  • Summary: [A mute print only of] a record, using actuality film and animated diagrams, of Britain's total mobilisation in the period Dunkirk to D-Day "based on the British Government Report 'Statistics relating to the War Effort'".
  • Description: [In the absence of the commentary, the following synopsis is of necessity purely visual.] Points are illustrated impressionistically, rather than in detail: Britain after Dunkirk, surrounded and outnumbered; defensive preparations, and mobilisation of man- and woman-power into the services and war industries; growing output, new techniques (sub-contracting); import problems (replacement of shipping losses, saving of cargo space by intensification and redirection of agriculture); domestic life (food rationing, Blitz victims, queues and storages); preparations for the resumption of the offensive, the massing of men and matériel; Germany defeated.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: UKY 728
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1946
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Films of Fact (Production company) Rotha, Paul19071984British documantary film maker (Production individual) Isotype Institute (Production individual) Diagram Films (Production individual) Calder, Peter Ritchie (Production individual) Tomalin, Miles (Production individual) Alwyn, William (Production individual) Orrom, Michael (Production individual) Bradford, Peter (Production individual) Cardin, Margaret (Production individual) Meyers, Tommy (Production individual) Mills, John (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: society, British - history (object name) strategy, British (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1853 ft; Running time: 20 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UKY 728

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