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• Into Action

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1943

  whole: a large image is occupies in the upper three-quarters. Text is placed separately below, in black against an off- yellow background. image: five RAF Bristol Beaufighter aircraft attacking a German desert convoy. Smoke and explosions fill the sky....

• Mightier Yet!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1940

  whole: a centrally positioned photographic image, with the title is placed above in large blue type. Further text is located below the image, white against a blue background. image: a monochrome photograph of seven RAF Hawker Huricanes fighters flying in...

• Forward to Victory

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1940

  whole: a large image with the title placed separately below, in black. All set against a white background. image: a loosely rendered drawing of British RAF fighter pilots scrambling to awaiting Spitfires. text: FORWARD TO VICTORY

• Today, Four-Fifths of the World is United Against Axis Tyranny

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1942

  whole: the image occupies the upper two-thirds incorporating text. The main text is set below the image in black and orange-brown ovwer a plain white background image: a lone but resolute British sentry standing beside a barbed wire fence. text: TWO...

• It All Depends on... Me

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1940

  whole: narrow horizonal format with text and image intregated and set against a plain white background. image: five British factory employees face the viewer their hands linked and superimposed over a large red chain. The central figure is partially...

• Keep Them Both Flying!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1940

  whole: a large central image. Text is placed above and below the image, white within red horizonal bands. image: a raised Union Flag behind which flies a RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter. text: KEEP THEM BOTH FLYING! SPEED IS Vital!

• Britain on the Offensive - Italian Air Losses

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1941

  whole: the image is positioned in the lower two-thirds. The title is separate and located along the top edge, in white, held within an orange inset. The subtitle and text are separate and located in the upper third, in black and orange. Further text is...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Krogman, W (artist) 1941

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a British Lockheed Hudson patrol bomber aircraft flying over...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Turner, Charles E (artist) 1941

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a night raid by RAF Lockheed Hudson bombers on German warships...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Stone, Marc (artist) 1941

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a British cruiser ramming an Italian submarine. text: MARC...

• They Come from the U.S.A.

  (posters) Made by: Pick, Beverley (artist) 1942

  whole: the image occupies the majority, with a smaller image positioned in the upper right. The images are partially set against a black and blue, horizontally striped background. The title is separate and placed along the top edge right, in black, held...

• Joe Potocki

  (posters) Made by: Pick, Beverley (artist) 1944

  whole: the main image occupies the right two-thirds, with a smaller image positioned in the upper left. The title is separate and placed in the centre left, in black. The text is separate and occupies the lower left, in red. The title and text are set...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Gardner, James (artist) 1941

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower third, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: three RAF Bristol Blemheim bombers bomb a large German powerstation. Clouds...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: F A A (artist) 1940

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in blue. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a British warship at sea firing her guns. Two more warships are visible...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Nunney (artist) 1942

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of five British soldiers operating an artillery gun during a...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Nockolds, Roy Anthony (artist) 1942

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a British Short Stirling heavy bomber aircraft dropping bombs on a...

• 'Duff'

  (art) Made by: Brangwyn, Frank (artist) 1917

  image: Below decks on board ship, a group of youths in naval rating uniform sit at a wooden table. In the foreground two boys sit on a bench, their backs to the viewer, holding a pudding bowl and spoon at the ready. An older sailor approaches from the...

• Back Them Up!

  (posters) Made by: Cuneo, Terence Tenison (artist) 1940

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in blue. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of five British soldiers operating an artillery gun that points out to sea...

• Don't Help the Enemy!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1939

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper centre, with the title and text separate and placed in the lower three- quarters, in white. All set against a blue background. image: a plain white sovereign's crown. text: DON'T HELP THE ENEMY! CARELESS TALK...

• Your Ambulances in Action - Thank You Windward Islands!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  image: In four sections. Top left: a British Red Cross member aids a casualty on a stretcher, and in the background four other Red Cross orderlies carry a second casualty on a stretcher. Top right: three ambulances drive across a battlefield. Lower...

• Greater London Plan Exhibition

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  No description available

• Spot at Sight Chart Number Two - Enemy Uniforms

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the two images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned in the upper fifth, in red and in black. The text is separate and placed in the lower fifth, in red held within black insets. All set against a white background and held...

• LIFE BEGINS AGAIN [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Douglas, R (Production individual) 1942

  The latest methods of rehabilitating injured men so that they can resume work.

• 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...

• TWELVE DAYS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Merton Park Studios (Production company) 1942-09

  During the war farmers were obliged to give at least 12 days notice of their intention to sell livestock for meat; this film explains the apparently unduly long delay by indicating the amount of administrative work involved in interpreting the resulting...

• PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 340-1 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Topical Film Company (Production company) 1918-02-28

  I. Venice takes measures to protect historic buildings from air raids.

• WRNS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Addinsell, Richard (Production individual) 1941-11

  The work of the Women's Royal Naval Service, presented in the framework of the story of a Wren's first posting.

• JANE BROWN CHANGES HER JOB [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Carr, James (Production individual) 1941

  A fictional story, showing the war-time training of women factory workers.

• QUEEN'S MESSENGERS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Jago, Jo (Production individual) 1941-07

  Explanation of a plan for a large-scale mobile canteen service, to be rushed at need to blitzed areas all over Britain.

• EMERGENCY COOKING STOVES [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Films of Great Britain (Production company) 1941-10

  An instructional film on the construction and use of a simple outdoor cooking stove.

• FILLING THE GAP [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Meyer, Ernst H (Production individual) 1942-04

  A Halas and Batchelor cartoon, explaining the food situation in Britain.

• ASK CAB [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Verity (Production company) 1942-09

  An outline, in a framework of fictional incidents, of the scope and services of the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB).

• A FEW OUNCES A DAY [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1941-10

  An explanation, by means of animated 'Isotype' diagrams, of the need for salvage.

• NIGHT SHIFT [Main Title]

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

  The story of a single night-shift at a factory producing guns for tanks (No 11 Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport, Wales ).

• NEWSPAPER TRAIN [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Meyer, Ernst H (Production individual) 1941

  An impression of the work involved in getting newspapers out of London to newsagents, a service that continued throughout the 'Blitz' ("even during the worst raids they never failed").

• WALES - GREEN MOUNTAIN, BLACK MOUNTAIN [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Mathieson, Muir (Production individual) 1942

  An impressionistic survey, scripted by Dylan Thomas, of Wales at war.

• BREATHING SPACE [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Shaw, Alexander (Production individual) 1943-09

  Documentary which shows some of the spare-time activities of service personnel and civilians during the war.

• THEY ALSO SERVE [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Halsted, H G (Production individual) 1940-12

  A tribute to the 'housewives of Britain', in the format of a day in the life of a 'typical' household during wartime centring around the mother/housewife's rôle.

• DANGEROUS COMMENT [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Culver, Roland (Production cast) 1940-05

  A 'Careless Talk' film.

• TOMORROW IS THEIRS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Board of Education (Production sponsor) 1940-12

  Secondary Education in Wartime.

• MR PROUDFOOT SHOWS A LIGHT [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Mallalieu, Aubrey (Production cast) 1941-03

  A mainly humorous attempt to drive home the importance of the blackout.

• WAR AND ORDER [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Gamlin, Lionel (Production cast) 1940-10

  The rôle of the police in wartime, emphasising the giving of aid to civilians, particularly during air raids.

• THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 1940-1945 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Bryant, Gerard (Production individual) 1945

  "Incidents dealing with the German Occupation are re-enacted by the Channel Islanders themselves."

• FARM WORK [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Gordon, M (Production individual) 1945

  "One of a film series about jobs after the war." In this case, agricultural workers.

• SHAPING THE FUTURE [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Ministry of Works (Production sponsor) 1946

  "One of a film series about jobs after the war." In this case, building.

• MINEFIELD! [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) 1944-04

  The opening titles call the minefield "one of the most important factors in land warfare": the film sets out to show the work involved in launching an attack through mines positions.

• CAMERAMEN AT WAR [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Ashwood, Terry (Production individual) 1943-11

  A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a compilation of film of the cameramen themselves and some of their most dramatic film.

• REME [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) 1944

  The work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

• TYNESIDE STORY [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Hughes, Ken (Production individual) 1943

  A dramatised account, with actors from a local theatre company, of the reopening for war production of the Tyneside shipbuilding yards closed down by the Depression.

• DANGER AREA [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Mathieson, Muir (Production individual) 1943-10

  An impression of work in a Royal Ordnance munitions plant, in the framework of a dramatised incident.