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Men, War and Film : The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
Men, War and Film : The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
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Author(s): HAWLEY
Hawley, Steve
ISBN No.: 9781835951071
Pages: 150
Year: 202506
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 55.45
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Status: Available (On Demand)

Towards the end of World War II a series of short films was made of individual service personnel in the 14th Army in Burma and India, sending poignant personal messages home to their family and friends. This is the story of the Calling Blighty series of films - a kind of one-way Skype of their day, which was shown in local cinemas to specially invited audiences of families and sweethearts. The films are remarkable and moving documents, both as talking postcards, and as a window on the authentic voices of ordinary men. Filmed direct to camera, sometimes self-conscious, sometimes emotional, sometimes funny, but always moving. These are the first ever films where men - and a few women - speak in their regional accents, and have profound meaning for remembrance, documentary representation, and the ecology of film in wartime. Of the nearly 400 films made only 60 survive. Steve Hawley, with the North West Film Archive, has traced over 200 of the families of the men and has recreated the wartime screenings for them - and for the two men still surviving who served in that terrible jungle war.


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