CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU [Main Title]

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Object description

How the Citizens Advice Bureau can help with the particular problems thrown up by the war.

Full description

The film opens at Waterloo Station as a wife assures her departing husband that she can cope with all the domestic bureaucracy. At the Citizens Advice Bureau she is given help with filling in a form. Other cases involve filling in bomb damage claim forms, helping to make contact with a relative and an elderly couple needing a break from "noise of the guns".

Physical description

16mm

Object details

Category: Film
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
GB Screen Services (Production company)
Searle, Francis A (Production individual)
Arliss, Leslie (Production individual)
Dane, Eric (Production individual)
Fogwell, Roy (Production individual)
Leevers, Norman (Production individual)
Goodwin, Harold B (Production individual)
Production date: 1941
Place made: GB
Dimensions: whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 1
Catalogue number: COI 1180

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