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Robert Newton, Kim Peacock and Walter Rilla in “ Heirs Cargo,” which was edited ajtei War began. Below: Joyce Barbour. Gordon Harker, Eliza- \ both Allan and Anna Kon- , stam in “ Saloon 3at." Sir Seymour Hicks, Nooa Pil- beam and Wilfrid Lawson in “ Pastor Hall," an indictment of the Nazi regime, inspired by the courage of Pastor Niemoller, the ex- U-boat commander of the First Great War, who was put in a concentration camp because he refused to preach the “ gos- pel according to the Fuehrer George Formby and Phyllis Calvert in “ Let George Do It." Wylie Wat- son, Reginald Purdell and Patricia Roc in “Pack Up Your T roubles." SixMonths fkN that momentous week-end in September 1939, when Mr. Neville Chamberlain, then our Prime Minister, announced that we were at war with Germany, we knew that we were on the eve of the greatest struggle for the liberty of action and thought for the individual that the world has ever known. Twenty-five years before, the British film industry, then a babe in arms, was virtually suffocated by the Great War, and it was only recently that, protected by the Quota regulations, it had begun to challenge American production. Those four years of the Great War had given America an advantage at a time when technique was in its most rapid and vital stage of development. This time, it was determined, the mistake should not be repeated. What happened in the British film industry during the first six months of the struggle ? The first activity was the evacuation of the London offices and their very inflammable reels of films to country districts, sandbags piled high against doorways, windows and pavement lights boarded up. Then, of course, by Government order, every cinema in the country was closed. This did not last long. A week later cinemas in “ safe " areas were reopened, to be followed gradually by cinemas in big industrial centres. For the first time we saw those air raid shelter notices with which we have since become so familiar, shown on the screen. And “ business as usual ” became the slogan.