Documentary News Letter (1941)

DOCUMENTARY NEWS LETTER OCTOBER 1941 185 ROSTER OF M.O.L FILMS, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1939, TILL AUGUST 31st, 1941 We are indebted to the Ministry of liiformation for permission to publish the following lists of films and statistical analysis. 1. THEATRICAL AND NON-THEATRICAL RELEASES *■ indicates a five-minute film, f indicates a 5 minute film acquired from an outside source. Names in brackets do not appear on the credit titles of the films concerned. "O" indicates that a film has been sent overseas. "/?"' indicates a D.N.L. review. "W" indicates that the film has been withdrawn from the Central Film Library. PROD. UNIT RELEASE DATE Adeste Fideles Strand B. Wright R. Keene R. Bond Crown (H. Watt) (R. Elton) G.B. Screen Servic F. Searle Alert in the East Movietone G. Sanger (Edited by Perrin ♦tAlbert's Savings Merton Park W. Williams H. Purcell British Found. Pic R. Haines All Hands Ealing M. Balcon J. Cars.airs *Any Old Iron Merton Park •Ashley Green Goes to School Strand A. Shaw J. Eldndge •A-tish-oo! Verity Jay Lewis (Jay Lewis M. Munde *A.T.S. Army Film Unit — (H. Stewar Bampton Shows the Way Realist P. Rotha B. Peake Behind the Guns Merton Park C. Musk M. Tully ♦Britain Can Take It (Carrier Pigeons) Casserole Cooking •Channel Incident •Christmas Under Fire •Citizens' Advice Bureau (Citizens' Army) Coal Front Coastal Defence Crumbs and Crust •Dawn Guard, The Defeat Diphtheria Do It Now (Drums in the Desert) •Eating Out Emergency Cooking Stove (Feed the Furnaces) •Fighter Pilot Fighting Fields First Days, The Fitness for Service Five and Under •Food for Thought Food from the Empire From the Four Comers From the Seven Seas •Front Line, The Furnaces of Industry •Heart of Britain, The •Her Father's Daughter Herrings •Home Guard How to Dig India's Navy Grow •flndia Marches See Mobile Canteen D. &P. B. Hur See Winged Messengers (H. Watt) L. Arliss B. Woolfe M. Balcon J. Boulting Paul Rotha Prods. P. Rotha G.P.O. — See Italy Beware G.P.O. G.B.I. Paul Rotha Prods. G. Sanger Mary Field A. Cavalcanti P. Rotha J. Croydon R. Boulting B. Peake P. Jackson (Edited by H. Jennings) D. Dickinson D. Taylor and I. Moffat {continued on next page) O. R. Vol. I, No. XII, p. 7 O. R. Vol. II, p. 149 O. Newsreel compilation. First despatched ove 4,40 9/40 Produced for th O. Home T. dis National Savings Committee bution by M.G.M. R. Vol. I, No. V, Identical Non-T. Compiled from library r version titled Feed the Furnaces O. Assoc. Producer: A. Elton. Longer Non-T. ve 8/41 O. R. Vol. 11. p. 128 3/41 9/40 O. Home T. distribution by Newsreel Association. R. Vol. I. No. Vin, p. 12. 10/40 O. R. Vol. I, No. VIII, p. 12 10,40 O. Compiled fron library material. Commentary by J. B. Priestley. Identical overseas version titled: 12/40 W. O. Commentary by Q. Reynolds. A slightly longer overseas version titled London Can Take It. R. Vol. I, No. XL p. 14 10/40 O. Commentary by C. B. Fry. R. Vol. I, No. IX, p. 13 despatched overseas 5/40 O. With Jean Gillie, Rene Ray and other O. With Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Har O. R. Vol. II, p. 9 O. Newsreel compilation. R. Vol. I, No. X, p With Hay Petrie and others O. R. Vol. II, p. 67 O. Home T. distribu p. 17 on by M.G.M. R. Vol. I, No. \ O. With Percy Walsh and Bernard Miles. R. Vol. I p. 28 R. Vol. II, p. 107 ssued in Britain. First despatched overWith Mabel Constanduros, Muriel George & others ibution by :d overseas 11/40 O. Home T. distribution by United Artists O. O. R. Vol. I, No. XII, p. 9 O. American version titled : This is England. R. Vol. II, p. 48 O. With Jennifer Gray, Viola Lyel and others