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This programme looks at how life has changed in the UK in the years since the Second World War.
This programme looks at how life has changed in the UK in the years since the Second World War.
| Module code and title: | D103, Society and social science: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | D103; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 1991 |
| Published: | 1991 |
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| Duration: | 01:00:00 |
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| Producer: | Jack Leathem |
| Contributors: | David Coates; Stuart Hall |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Britain's post-war lifestyle; Post war housing; Sheffield newsreels; Yorkshire steelworkers |
| Subject terms: | Children--Great Britain--Attitudes; Families--Great Britain; Home economics--Great Britain; Leisure--Great Britain; Sex role--Great Britain; Sexual division of labour--Great Britain; Great Britain --Economic conditions; --Great Britain --Social conditions --1945- |
| Footage description: | Footage - Presenter Stuart Hall speaking. Man on TV screen. Pan back to TVs in shop window. Doorway of shop selling electrical goods. Man loading boot of car outside Morrisons supermarket. View of market town. Walking school children. War memorial. Market stalls (0'5"-2'19") - Family talking and drinking tea.Plaque outside doctors' practice. Family at a table. Exterior of house. Traffic on busy street reflected in shop window. Busy street (2'20"-3'46") - B/w Conservative Party film 1958 showing various high street shops. Pickfords Travel sign and shop front. Unicorn Hotel. Shops. Meat in butchers' window (3'47"-6'07") - Terraced houses. White gate panning to houses. Town houses. Terraced house. Lloyd street sign. Terraced houses. Another Lloyd street sign panning across streets. Couple walking up driveway into house (6'08"- 8'31") - Couple in garden. Large house. Butchers' shop window. Fish counter.B/w film of women working. B/w Movietone film 1954: wartime queue, meat in butchers window, butchers carrying pig's carcass from lorry, ration books in fire (8'32"-11'31") - Corner shop in terraced street. Grocers, washeteria, supermarket. Woman pushing trolley. Car. Supermarket tills. Credit card sign. Broken windows. Disused warehouse (11'32"-14'47") - Shop models dressed in sportswear. Golf course. B/w photo of family on beach. B/w film of 1950s cinema queue. Board advertising tickets. B/w BBC film of Wilfred Paling giving a speech in 1949. Chimneys and TV aerials. B/w family photos (14'48"-19'51") - B/w Movietone film 1949: holiday sunbathers on beach, children with ice creams. Photos of couple's wedding in Barbados. B/w War Office Productions film 1945 showing people working in various jobs. B/w Dept of Health Productions film 1945: woman knocked down by truck, woman in hospital. Doctors waiting room. Male doctor carrying files. Woman reading magazine. Reception (19'52"-24'24"). Woman entering female doctor's room and being treated. B/w Movietone film 1962 of British Steel plant. British Stainless Steel sign. Steelworkers working in plant. Molten steel being poured. Furnace. B/w film of British Steel production. Worker operating machine. Various shots of steel production. Control room. Safety sign. Steel works. B/w film of steel production. (24'25"-30'19") - B/w film of women hanging out washing, seeing children off to school. Dirty dishes. Family eating at table. Man making coffee. Man clearing table (30'20"-33'44") - B/w film: woman writing apple tart recipe on blackboard, boys making apple tarts. Man cooking chinese stir fry (33'45-37'43") - B/w Movietone film 1957 "The Gentle Sex": policewomen in Cyprus, RAC patrol woman assisting with breakdown, women working in factories (37'44"-40'37"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU6583 |
| Production number: | FOUD378R |
| Videofinder number: | 3806 |
| Available to public: | no |
