Words for Battle (1941)
- Directed by
- Humphrey Jennings
- Genre
- documentary film, propaganda film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A propaganda film from 1941 that shows British landscapes and wartime scenes. Laurence Olivier reads passages from English literature and historic speeches over the images.
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What happens
Words for Battle (also known by its original title In England Now) is a British propaganda film produced by the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit in 1941. It was written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, and features seven sequences, each containing images of rural and urban Britain at war overlaid with audio commentary by Laurence Olivier, reciting passages from different English literary works and speeches. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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