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London Pride
Film Description A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Features 'London Can Take It' (Jennings & Watt, 1940) a film about Londoners under seige during the blitz, seen in the rare, longer American version, and narrated by American journalist Quentin Reynolds. Also includes 'The Proud City' (1945) about London County Council's plans for re-developing the city, 'London Airport' (1949) about the construction of Heathrow Airport, 'Moving Millions' (1947) about the post-war changes in London Transport and 'Journey on a London Bus' (1950) in which two African students sample the pleasures of travelling on London's buses.
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Article - "London Pride"
by Graeme Hobbs
London Pride presents a fascinating collection of documentaries from the 1940s, showing how much the recent history of the city was shaped by the experience of the war and the need for the rebuilding that followed. It begins with Harry Watt & Humphrey Jennings... View article in full
Article - "A Useful Piece of Equipment: The Reminiscences of Humphrey Jennings’ Assistant Director, Joe Mendoza"
by Joe Mendoza
Dora Wright was our ‘ace’ Production Manager. She’d worked with Alexander Korda before he buzzed off to the States. She said, “Humphrey’s going to make the National Gallery film and he wants you to be his assistant. He says he knows nothing about music and you know a... View article in full
Article - "Only Connect: some aspects of the work of Humphrey Jennings"
by Lindsay Anderson
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Article - "Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950"
by Michael Brooke
"Doubtless, were we a rational race, the spectacle of our present position would overwhelm us. But then we've always, thank heaven, remained deaf to appeals to reason, convinced that the experts are invariably wrong." So says the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster during Hu... View article in full
Collections & ListsThis film is part of the following Film Collections
Including: 40s Britain - Fishermen At War, Classical Music In The Forties, Drifters / Caller Herrin, GPO Animation, Len Lye - Rhythms, London Pride, Night Mail / West Highland, The GPO Classics Collection: Britain At War - The First Days, The GPO Classics Collection: Britain at War -Under Fire, The GPO Story: Thirties Britain (Vol 1).
Including: 40s Britain - Fishermen At War, Battle For The Skies, Britains Home Front at War - London Can Take It!, Britains Home Front At War - The Home Guard and Britains Citizen Army, Britains Home Front at War - Women and Children at War, Britains Home Front At War - Words for Battle / Writers at War, Burma Victory, Churchill, Colditz, Desert Victory.
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