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• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 1 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1942-05

  A newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring reports on a scheme to enable women war workers to buy food during working hours, the production of sand filters for aircraft and tank engines, a...

• WORKERS' WEEK END [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Elton, Ray (Production individual) 1943-10

  Film record of the effort by workers in an aircraft factory to produce a Wellington bomber in 30 hours or less, working voluntarily over one weekend and donating their bonus earnings to the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund.

• Help the West Indies to Work for Victory - Sugar Plantation Workers

  (posters) Made by: Ministry of Information (publisher/sponsor)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half bordered by a grey line. Red text is placed underneath. All is set against a plain white background. image: three West Indian sugar plantation workers cutting sugar cane in a field, with one other worker...

• Help the West Indies to Work for Victory - Bauxite Miners

  (posters) Made by: Ministry of Information (publisher/sponsor)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half bordered by a grey line. Brown text is placed underneath. All is set against a plain white background. image: male West Indian Bauxite miners at work in a quarry. Two workers are digging in the foreground...

• Your 'Spitfires' in Action - Thank You, Leeward Islands!

  (posters) Made by: Ministry of Information (publisher/sponsor)

  whole: black text is positioned at the top. Four square framed images are placed underneath in two columns of two. Beneath each image are a few lines of text in black. Further text in black is located at the bottom with a circular logo in the bottom...

• THE HARVEST SHALL COME [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Imperial Chemical Industries (Production sponsor) 1942

  A film that calls upon the British people to maintain their wartime commitment to agriculture and the prosperity and well-being of everyone who works on the land after the war by telling the story of Tom Grimwood, an ordinary Suffolk farm labourer...

• CEMA [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Dickinson, Desmond (Production individual) 1942

  A documentary released in September 1942 about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live...

• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 3 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1942-11

  A newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring reports about the speedy unloading of ships' cargoes by Britain's dockers, the unexpected benefits of the scrap metal drive for ordinary Britons,...

• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE No 11 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1944-04

  A wartime newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring a report on the manufacture of portable wire mesh tracking, a 'Make Do and Mend' exchange scheme for children's clothing and a short...

• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 12 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1944-09-01

  A wartime newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring an exhibition on the plans for the post-war reconstruction of a London borough, how a female Post Office worker persuaded her employers to...