Rent Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (1950)
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- Synopsis:
Featuring 40 films over four discs, this extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films - many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before, during and after the Second World War. Bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of a rapidly changing world, these fascinating historical documents are all striking for their different approaches to the form. Using poetry, dramatic reconstruction, modernist techniques and explicit propaganda, the filmmakers found fresh, new ways to get their message across. Bringing together celebrated and lesser-known works from such luminaries as Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings, Ruby Grierson, Basil Wright and Paul Dickson... - Actors:
- Frederick Allen, Elizabeth Cowell, Henry Hallett, Herbert Lomas, Marjorie Rhodes, Donald Calthrop, Mr. Norwood, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Reddington, H. Wilson Harris, Howard Marshall, Jack Livesey, J.B. Priestley, Danny Kaye, Kate Smith
- Directors:
- Humphrey Jennings, Ruby Grierson, Basil Wright, Donald Alexander, Linda Marlowe, Janet Bates, Paul Rotha, Arthur Elton, Robert J. Flaherty, Edgar Anstey, Ralph Bond, Geoffrey Bell, James Carr, J.B. Holmes, Jack Lee, Garson Kanin, John Page
- Producers:
- Paul Rotha, Robert J. Flaherty, John Grierson, Ian Dalrymple
- Voiced By:
- Miles Malleson, John Mills, Councillor Lauder, Laurence Olivier, Beatrix Lehmann
- Narrated By:
- Howard Marshall, Jack Livesey
- Writers:
- Ara Calder-Marshall, Miles Malleson, Miles Tomalin, Wolfgang Wilhelm, J.B. Priestley, Reg Groves, Edward Carrick
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries
- Collections:
- A History of Soviet Silent Cinema, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s
