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This fictional short shows a "goofer"--a person who emerges from shelter during an air raid to judge the performance of fighter pilots--kept a Canadian pilot from downing a German plane over England. Ends with a plea to the audience to leave fighting…

A Soviet-British co-production reporting to the Allied nations on the lives of children in the Soviet Union, providing "a glimpse of the Soviet child from infancy to high school." Portrays an idyllic and well organized system for educating and caring…

Deals with Britain's treatment of mental health in wartime. Shows a specialized hospital for military and civilian patients and gives a picture of its organization and operation, including diagnostic and therapeutic methods, occupational therapy,…

A recuitment film for the British Air Training Corps, which trained teenage boys for a career in the U.K. air force. The short starts with a group of boys fighting about the model of airplane they see landing on an airstrip, and then moves to an…

Shows the British system of casualty stations, emergency hospitals, and convalescent homes established in and around London for maintaining the fight against sickness and caring for wartime casualties. The film starts with a peaceful evocation of…

This short nonfiction film depicts the intensive testing that goes into developing and producing new military equipment, here the propeller engine of a fighting plane. It opens with the whirring or propeller blades. Animated diagrams show how the…

Shows how A.B.C.A. (Army Bureau of Current Affairs) was started as an experiment in 1941 and became an integral part of the training of every British soldier, some of the weekly meetings in full swing, and the training given to officers who conduct…

"A film about Britain's parachute troops, showing the training of this most modern branch of the Army, is coming out from London shortly. Specially produced for overseas viewers, Paratroops first shows the recruits jumping off high platforms and…

Laurence Olivier's reading of passages from Milton, William Blake, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and Abraham Lincoln accompany scenes of daily life in wartime Britain. The texts selected emphasize national identity and heritage, patriotism, and…

Using maps and animated diagrams, the importance of the Middle East in Allied world strategy is shown. Austere images and narration inform the viewer of the strategic issues at stake: control of oil production, its role as a wall obstructing supply…