LEADER 00000ngmaa2200541Ka 4500 001 666907420 003 OCoLC 005 20100929125156.0 007 vf bbahou 008 100929s200u xxk089 vleng 035 (PFA-FILM)20080 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 245 00 How to survive the 1940s :|bpost-war public information films|h[videorecording] /|cBFI. 257 United Kingdom. 260 United Kingdom :|bBFI,|c[200-] 300 1 videocassette of 1 (85 min.) (VHS NTSC) :|bsd., b&w. ; |c1/2 in. 505 0 Worth the risk. 1948 (10:00 min.) -- Help yourself / John Waterhouse. 1950 (12:00 min.) -- Another case of poisoning / John Waterhouse. 1949 (14:00 min.) -- The people at no. 19 / J. B. Holmes. 1949 (18:00 min.) -- Your children's meals / Alex Strasser. 1947 (13:00 min.) -- Pool of contentment / Richard Massingham. 1946 (18:00 min.) 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 520 "Since 1946 the COI (Central Office of Information) has brought us public information films on health, safety and welfare issues -- from the danger of accepting sweets from strangers to how to survive a nuclear explosion. This special programme brings together some rarely seen highlights from the COI's founding years, the late 1940s, drawn from the collections of the BFI National Archive. These films, screened to huge cinema audiences, aimed to put a war-weary nation back on its feet. Some remain surprisingly topical, such as Worth the Risk? (a sardonic exposé of dangerous drivers, cutting and swerving through the streets of post-war London) or Your Children's Meals (practical guidance for the parents of fussy eaters). Others reflect the particular preoccupations of those post -war years: The People at No. 19 is a mini noir thriller on the subject of venereal disease, while Richard Massingham's Pool of Contentment -- on how to get the best out of the office typing pool -- offers a comic glimpse of the 1940s workplace. Combining fictional and documentary approaches, these films provide an intriguing portrait of everyday life in 1940s' Britain, recorded in atmospheric detail"--www.bfi.org.uk 538 VHS NTSC. 650 0 Automobiles|zGreat Britain|xSafety measures. 650 0 Child rearing|zGreat Britain. 650 0 Generative organs|xInfections. 650 0 Typists|xEmployment|zGreat Britain. 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Public service.|2mim 655 7 Instruction.|2mim 655 7 Documentaries and factual works.|2mim 690 British films. 700 1 Waterhouse, John,|edirection. 700 1 Holmes, J. B.|edirection. 700 1 Strasser, Alex,|edirection. 700 1 Massingham, R.|q(Richard),|d1898-1953,|edirection. 710 2 British Film Institute. 740 02 Worth the risk 740 02 Help yourself 740 02 Another case of poisoning 740 02 People at no. 19 740 02 Your children's meals 740 02 Pool of contentment 941 0 PFA 0500-01-13839. PFA collection acquisition curatorial preview 2006/12/11 946 PFA 0500-01-13839. INV record created 2008/07/20 by pjs ; MIN record created 2010/09/27 by sw. 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 C0|bCUY