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DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER
CATALOGUE OF M.O.I. FILMS MADE IN 1944
Published by Permission of the Ministry of Information.
15-M : Fifteen minute film release T: Mainly Theatrical Release
NT : Mainly Non-Theatrical Release
ABBREVIATIONS
I : Instructional
CFL : Listed in Central Film Library Catalogue
W : Withdrawn
Names of people in brackets do not appear on credit titles.
OO Mainly for Overseas use OOO Wholly for Overseas use
1. THEATRICAL AND NON-THEATRICAL RELEASES
DISTRI
PRODUCTION
RELEASE DATES
TITLE
BUTION
I NIT
PRODUCER
DIRECTOR
T
NT LENGTH
NOTES
Atlantic Trawler
CFL
NT
Realist
J. Taylor
F. Sainsbury
1044
1,960
Back to Normal
CFL
15-M
Merlin
M. Hankinson
R. McDougall
1044
1 45
1,358
Bailey Bridge
CFL
OO
Merlin
M. Hankinson
A. Barnes
1 45
1,008
By Sea and Land
CFL
15-M
Crown
J. Holmes
J.Lee
9 44
10 44
1,202
Catholics in Britain
OOO
Verity
S. Box
H.Cass
—
—
1,415
Despatched Latin America 5 44
Checkmate!
OOO
Merton Park
F. A. Hoare
H. Purcell
—
—
1,663
Despatched Latin America 5 44
Children of the City
CFL
NT
P. Rotha Prods.
P. Rotha
B. Cooper
—
644
2,853
Chinese in Britain
OOO
Strand
D. Taylor
C. Heck
—
—
3,028
Despatched China, Autumn 1944. A version is being prepared for CFL
Chinese Mission to Britain
OOO
Movietone
—
—
—
—
953
Despatched China 7 44
Cine Sports Magazine No.
13
f 1.020
Despatched 1 44
No.
14
977
Despatched 2 44
No.
15
950
Despatched 3 44
No.
16
OOO
G.B.S.S.
—
—
—
_
970
Despatched 4 44
No.
17
940
Despatched 5 44
No.
IS
945
Despatched 6 44
No.
19
873
Despatched 7 44
No.
20
k 888
Despatched 8 44
A City Rehom
CFL
NT
Gryphon
D. Taylor
J. Eldridge
— .
—
2,048
Release date not yet fixed
Conquest of a Dry Land
CFL
NT
Information Films Ezra Mir
—
—
145
827
Adapted by Sylvia Cummins
Conquest of a Germ
CFL
15-M
of India Gryphon
D. Taylor
J. Eldridge
6/44
9 44
1,348
Comish Valley
CFL
NT
Green Park
—
R. Keene
9/44
1,500
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Cotswold Club
CFL
NT
Strand
D. Taylor
C. de Latour
—
4/44
1,064
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Crofters
CFL
NT
Green Park
—
R. Keene
—
944
2.118
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Date with a Tank
CFL
1 5-M
Army F.U.
—
8/44
9 44
1,291
Doing Without
OOO
Spectator
M. Hankinson
G. Gunn
—
1 44
1,214
Duke of Gloucester
OOO
Movietone
—
—
8 44
919
Newsreel Compilation
Eight} Days. The
CFL
NT
Crown
H. Jennings
1 4
1.266
Farm is Reclaimed, A
CFL
I
Campbell Harper
—
A. Harper
—
1 45
1,331
Flax
CFL
NT
Strand
D. Taylor
—
6 44
824
Fuel for Battle
CFL
NT
Strand
D . Taylor
J. Eldridge
9 44
1.893
Grass & Clover Seed Produ
ctioi
l CFL
I
Strand
—
3 44
1,349
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Grassy Shires, The
CFL
NT
Green Park
—
R. Keene
—
4 44
1.397
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Great Circle
CFL
15-M
Shell
E. Anstey
N. Bell
7/44
1044
1,194
Harbour Goes to France
CFL
15-M
Admir. & Army F.U
11/44
1/45
1,242
Housing in Scotland
CFL
NT
Merlin
—
G. Gunn
1 45
1,296
How to Bake
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
9 44
645
How to Boil
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
944
750
How to Cook Green Vegeta
bles
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
9 44
771
How to Fry
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
9 44
669
How to Make Short Pastry
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
9 44
876
Hundred Years Old, A
OOO
G.B.I.
Brian Salt
9 44
996
Jig-Saw 2
OO
Verity
H.Cass
644
779
Latin Americans in England
OOO
Paramount
—
—
954
Despatched overseas 4 44
Life Saving at Sea
CFL
I
Films in G.B.
—
A. Buchanan
—
11/44
3,402
iLili Marlene)
See The True
Story of Lili Marlene
Minefield
15-M
Army F.U.
4/44
5/44
1,308
Naples in a Battlefield
CFL
15-M
R.A.F. F.U. & Army F.U.
—
—
2/44
5/44
1,218
New Builders
CFL
NT
P. Rotha Prods.
P. Rotha
K. Mander
—
11 44
1,914
New Crop, The
CFL
NT
Green Park
—
K. Annakin
4 44
1,721
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
New Zealand
CFL
NT
Crown
—
—
—
3 44
1,323
Compilation ("Know the Commonwealth" Series No. 2)
Night Flight
CFL
NT
R.A.F. F.U.
1044
2,042
One Man, Two Jobs
CFL
NT
Movietone
G. Sanger
444
969
Our Country
T
Strand
A. Shaw
J. Eldridge
3.996
Release 6 45
Outworking
CFL
Strand
M. Hankinson
G. Gunn
—
10 44
1,138
Patching and Darning
CFL
I
Films of G.B.
A. Buchanan
244
970
Potato Blisiht
CFL
I
Realist
R. Hunter
3 44
1,473
Assoc. Producer: E. Anstey
Rationing in Britain
OOO
World Wide
R. Bond
G. Cutts
—
—
973
Despatched overseas 6 44
Rescue Reconnaissance
CFL
I
Shell
E. Anstey
G. Tharp
—
644
3,090
Ship Against Plane
OOO
Movietone
—
—
—
—
992
Compilation. Desp. Overseas 1 1 44
Some Like it Rough
CFL
NT
Pub. Relationship
G. Wallace
R. Massingham
—
—
1,225
Release not yet fixed
South Africa
CFL
15-M
Crown
—
—
—
5 44
1.240
Compilation ("Know the Commonwealth" Series No. 1)
Soviet Village
CFL
NT
P. Rotha Prods.
1044
843
Compilation
Start in Life, A
CFL
NT
Realist
J. Taylor
B. Smith
—
9 44
1,995
English version of a film originally designed for Latin America
Steam Utilisation
CFL
I
C.W.S.
—
G. Wynn
—
10 44
1,894
Subject Discussed
CFL
NT
Gryphon
D. Taylor
C. de Latour
1 45
1,325
Three Cadets
CFL
Green Park
R. Keene
K. Annakin
—
1 45
1,968
Transatlantic Airport
CFL
15-M
Crown
A. Elton
M. Gordon
12 '44
1,293
True Story of Lili Marlene,
The
T
Crown
(J. Holmes)
H. Jennings
B 44
—
2,683
Two Fathers
T
Crown
Elton
A. Asquith
—
—
1,205
Release not vet fixed
V.l
OOO
Crown
H. V Jennings
—
—
—
758
Dcsr-iiched to U.S. 1 1 44
War on Wheels
CFL
I
World Wide
R. Bond
K.Hughes
—
7 44
1,348
West Indies Calling
15-M
P. Rotha Prods.
P. Rotha
D. Alexander
1 44
—
1,306
Western Approaches
T
Crown
I. Dalrymple
P. Jackson
11 44
—
7,529
In technicolor
Willing Hands
CFL
NT
World Wide
J. Carr
M. Frances
—
10 44
958
Worker & Warf ront No. 1 0
/ 2 44
1,083\ 975 969 \J
No. 11
1 4 44
No. 12
CFL
NT
—
—
—
—
u 44
\ magazine, assembled by Films of Fact,
No. 13
1
| 11 44
1,020 | 851/
from items produced by various units
No. 14
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