Steve Hawley

Men, War and Film (eBook, ePUB)

The Calling Blighty Films of World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Towards the end of the Second World War, a series of short films was made of individual service personnel in the 14th Army in Burma and India, sending poignant personal messages home to their family and friends.

This is the story of the Calling Blighty series of films - a kind of one-way Skype of their day, which were shown in local cinemas to specially invited audiences of families and sweethearts.

The films are remarkable and moving documents, both as talking postcards, and as a window on the authentic voices of ordinary men. Filmed direct to camera, sometimes self-conscious, sometimes emotional, sometimes funny but always moving. These are the first ever films where men - and a few women - speak in their regional accents, and have profound meaning for remembrance, documentary representation, and the ecology of film in wartime.

Of the nearly 400 films made only 60 survive. Steve Hawley with the North West Film Archive has traced over 200 of the families of the men and has recreated the wartime screenings for them - and for the two men still surviving who served in that terrible jungle war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789385120
• Artikelnr.: 64160939

Autorenporträt

Steve Hawley is an artist/filmmaker whose work has been screened worldwide, and has collaborated closely with the North West Film Archive UK. He is emeritus professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.