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Don’t Mention the War – The MOI’s Embargo on the British Council Film Department
Sam Milsom discusses information unearthed from files held the National Archives,which show how a minor inter-departmental misunderstanding drastically changed the direction of the British Council‘s films. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
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The British Council’s Medical Films
When TIME/IMAGE was first introduced to the British Council’s archive film collection, we quickly noticed that amongst the culturally-focused titles there were a handful of technical medical films. We thought they were a curiosity and perhaps a little out of keeping with the rest of the archive. Unable to locate much archive material on them
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Memories of a Country Town: Part 2 – Market Day & Work
Part 2 of our extended audio interview with John Crabb is now online. In this installment, John shares his memories of Market Day in Boston and what he and his peers did to earn a shiny penny or two… [audio http://audioboo.fm/boos/365503-memories-of-a-country-town-part-2-market-day-work.mp3]
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FILMS of BRITAIN – A List of Documentary Films 1939
The Films of Britain series consists of seven booklets, produced between 1939 and 1950. Initially describing itself simply as ‘A List of Documentary Films’, they are produced by TIDA and the British Council Film Department and detail the contents of a variety of documentary films, including those produced by TIDA and the British Council. It
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The Market Town of Newark
First Boston, now Newark! TIME/IMAGE’s Sarah Cole chats to Matt Colbourne of Newark’s BOUNDARY SOUND 102.6fm: Click here to listen. Watch Market Town (1942) here.
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The Boston Standard
The United Kingdom, as a number of the digitised films observe, is a diverse land – of mountains and beaches, of fields and industry. To emphasise this, the British Council films focus on not just Britain as a whole, but as a heterogeneous country with distinct regions and peoples – highlighted through those films focusing
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The Jigsaw
Researching around these films is a bit like trying to put together a jigsaw, but instead of a nice boxed set, what you’ve got is a bag full of jigsaw pieces, with no guarantee that there’s only one jigsaw in the bag, or that you have all of the pieces to any of them. We
Channel 4 News 14/12/2010
A five minute feature on the Films of the British Council as seen on Channel 4 News.
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Cataloguing the Films of the British Council
Cataloguing the expansive selection of films that form the British Council’s documentary archive was always going to be a complex task. There are a number of considerations to take into account, from deciding on methods of categorization, to deciphering the date of release if different to the date of completion. With this in mind when
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