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This programme is an introduction to the series of sixteen archive film compilation... programmes which form the television component to the War and Society course. The programme contains sixteen short film clips which Arthur Marwick, Professor of History, uses to demonstrate the value and limitationsof archive film as an historical source. Film must be seen in context with other available sources but it can be a particularly revealing source. A 1939 documentary demonstrates how film can provide un
This is the final programme in the People & Organisations course and in it Dr. Kenn...eth Thompson and Dr. Graeme Salaman look back over the previous seven films and analyse some of the points the films brought out.
This is the final programme in the People & Organisations course and in it Dr. Kenn...eth Thompson and Dr. Graeme Salaman look back over the previous seven films and analyse some of the points the films brought out.
Filming was very difficult and dangerous for resistors, whose first task was to res...ist, and so little genuine footage was taken until the last stages of the war, when Allied aid to resistance groups was highly organised. therefore there are one or two items where the action has been simulated in some way. Some clips in this category come from rene Clement's famous film on the resistance effort of the French railway workers 'La bataille du rail', including the sequence where a real german armamen
