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Worker and War Front No. 7
A wartime magazine made to motivate and inform war workers, commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1942 and exclusively screened in factories.
Government sponsored film 1943 8 mins
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Overview
Issue seven opens with workmen travelling to an undisclosed location in the country, where evacuated statues are kept safe from falling Luftwaffe bombs. We then move to a home front factory that has succeeded in winning a competition established to celebrate 25 years since the founding of the USSR, before closing with an item on a lend lease scheme run by British farmers.
Director
Duncan Ross
Genres
Government sponsored filmCinemagazine
Released
1943
Country
United Kingdom
Location
BerkhamstedLondon
Language
English
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