British Documentary Films

[Billy Liar]

After any that aren't on DVD/VHS, saying this if you could provide links to anything that is available that would be great!



Films of Fact

Paul Rotha Productions

Two Cities Films

Spectator Films

Crown Film Unit



+ anything else you may think I'd be intrested in.

[Rob Compton]

...er "Compton" film unit? Any relation to me? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]



I know you said, not on DVD/VHS but I can't fail to mention the great work done by Panamint www.panamint.co.uk - if you haven't seen their catalogue and this genre interests you, you're in for a treat!



When it comes to definitely NOT on DVD/VHS, I would also be really interested in any material out there. We did have a thread on this ages ago, and I remember mentioning the "Britain at War" film season on C4 years ago, introduced by Leslie Halliwell (now sadly dead, of course). It included some wartime Food Flashes and Ministry of Information films that were fascinating (for example Miss Grant Goes to the Door - and confronts an enemy parachute soldier)



rgds

Rob

[Billy Liar]

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...er "Compton" film unit? Any relation to me? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]



I know you said, not on DVD/VHS but I can't fail to mention the great work done by Panamint www.panamint.co.uk - if you haven't seen their catalogue and this genre interests you, you're in for a treat!



When it comes to definitely NOT on DVD/VHS, I would also be really interested in any material out there. We did have a thread on this ages ago, and I remember mentioning the "Britain at War" film season on C4 years ago, introduced by Leslie Halliwell (now sadly dead, of course). It included some wartime Food Flashes and Ministry of Information films that were fascinating (for example Miss Grant Goes to the Door - and confronts an enemy parachute soldier)



rgds

Rob

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Thanks for the input Rob and please feel free to point out DVD/VHS releases aswell. Compton films was a errrr.... a typo, yes a typo.. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Billy Liar]

These are the ones I'm most intrested in at the moment. Also after any books by Paul Rotha.



Birthday(Rotha, 1945)

Children of The City(Rotha, 1944)

Enough To Eat(Anstley, 1936)

Housing Problems(Anstley, 1935)

Drifters(1929, Grierson)

Land of Promise(1945, Rotha)

[Billy Liar]

Still looking for these films, very hard to track down. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]

[Billy Liar]

I now have Drifters, still looking for the others mentioned, plus anything else intresting.