Film Record: Behold Our Leader

Identifier:

• 3110 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Hugh Baddeley

Production credits:

• Alan Simpson, Assistant Director
• Oswald Shepherd, Camera
• Stanley Smith, Art Director
• Beryl Eastwood, Continuity
• Frank H. Wright, Script
• Hugh Baddeley, Editor
• Billie Mason, Make-up

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:26:22

Length:

900 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"A black comedy giving a burlesque take on fascism and clearly aimed at Hitler's first six years in power. Dissatisfaction with Westminster's policies prompts a takeover by the Celts and the installation of a vacuous nonentity as dictator. The full panoply of Nazi regalia and methods are satirized before the dictator's fall." (EAFA Database)

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

Club Affiliation:

Planet Amateur Film Society

Subjects:

• Politics

Genre:

• Comedy

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

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