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Images in this album include: series entitled 'Birth of a Star' following the Association of British Picture Corporation's attempt to make Muriel Pavlow into a film star, including views of Muriel getting ready and on set (also a photograph of Muriel with her future husband, fellow actor Derek Farr - D 24350) (see also album 135), series entitled 'Arab Reception' featuring views of the reception held at the Dorchester Hotel on 4 April to celebrate the signature of the Articles of Arab Unity by representatives of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, series entitled 'Save Coal Exhibition' showing panels designed by the Ministry of Fuel and Power urging the public to save fuel (coal, gas and electricity), photograph entitled 'Colonial Centre' feturing the exterior of a centre in Earl's Court, London, series entitled 'Resettlement Advice Service' following the work of the Ministry of Labour and National Service Resettlement Advice Centres in Bishops Stortford, Luton and Cambridge, series entitled Ambulances for Yugoslavia' at the presentation of 10 ambulances to representatives of the Yugoslav Red Cross by the Yugoslavia Emergency Committee, photograph entitled 'Village Whist Drive', photographs entitled 'Four Airmen from the Seychelles Islands' featuring a tea reception at the Victoria League Colonial Bureau on 10 April 1945, series entitled 'Yugo-Slav Government Officials see Special Screening of Ministry of information Film 'The Nine Hundred', series entitled 'British Photographer gets Gold Medal Award of Buenos Aires Press Association' featuring views of Sgt W McConville receiving his award at the MoI on 17 April 1945, series entitled 'Jewish Trade Delegation Tours Bombed Area of Jewish East' showing visit to bomb sites, series entitled 'American Soldiers visit Wesley's Chapel' the soldiers from a US Military Hospital in Bristol visited the chapel on 12 April 1945, series entitled 'The Laugh!' featuring Charlie Shadwell, the conductor for radio programme 'ITMA', who has become famous for his laugh, series entitled 'Cinema Vans' showing the film projectors and the trucks themselves, series entitled 'Sanatorium Nursing' featuring various views of Broomfield Sanatorium (Chelmsford?), series entitled 'Wiltshire Village' following life in Lacock, which was handed over to the National Trust by the Lady of the Manor Miss M T Talbot MBE in September 1944, includes picturesque photographs of the church and cottages, one photograph featuring Queen Elizabeth with a group of ladies with salvaged clothes (no official caption available), series entitled 'Sir Patrick and Lady Duff' showing the couple in their garden, a photographic portrait of Lt Col F E S Boulby, series entitled 'ATS Band Visitis American Hospitals' showing the marching band playing for US troops in hospital barracks in the South West of England, series entitled 'Modernising Rural Industries' focussing particularly on a potato canning factory, but also includes various other forms of industry and views of chicks in a drawer, machinery , farmland, and tomato-growing, series entitled 'New Zealand Repatriates Arrive in England' showing troops jumping out of truck as they arrive at the Grand Hotel in Westcliff (see also album 137).