Stacks of these have been made available at the British Council Film Collection. Fascinating to see how the government wanted life in Britain to be perceived: “Over 120 films were produced as ‘cultural propaganda’ to counteract anything the Nazis might throw out and to refute the idea that ours was a country stuck in the past.”
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This reminds me of Went the Day Well?, which is one of my favourite black and white films because it is pure British WW2 propaganda. There’s almost something quite naive, I feel, about such jingoist propaganda.
Which, it turns out, is available in full on Google Video (which I didn’t know still existed!)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2302704134696776679&ei=hwUoS8aEJ4aJ-Ab5u8jODA&q=went+the+day+well+1942&hl=en
Thanks for the link – I didn’t even know about that film, if I’m honest! But yes, it’s amazing how naive these films were. But they must have worked for them to remain being made in such a manner.