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Black Vomit

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

D. Shaw Ashton

Description:

"Documentary on smoke pollution and the effects it has on people's health." (EAFA Database)


Cornish Village, A

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Edgar E. Pritchard

Description:

"A film about Cadgwith, a small village in the UK. The film was started in 1939 but the intervention of war prevented completion." (EAFA Database)


Coming of the Camerons, The

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Frank M. Marshall

Description:

A film about the introduction of trousers instead of skirts for women who work for the postal service. Jean Cameron was the postal service woman who requested the trousers, which became known as 'Camerons.'


Around the Lakes

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

G. R. Hind

Description:

A film documenting various excursions during a holiday in the Lake District of the UK.


Apple a Day, An

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Frank M. Marshall

Description:

"Exploits of a boy and girl scrumping fruit and annoying a gardener and an angler. Sickness is the reward for gluttony and the doctor dispenses castor oil to the miscreant." (EAFA Database)


Welsh Colours

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Film record of a journey from Oxford to South West Wales and northwards through Wales, comprising shots of local beauty spots, visitor attractions and the activities of locals." (EAFA Database)


Visit to the ACHEMA Exhibition Kőln and some things seen elsewhere, A

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Films recording sightseeing excursions made by delegates from the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) while attending the ACHEMA exhibition in Cologne in 1934, and street scenes in and around the Rőmerberg in Frankfurt in the mid/ late-1930s. (EAFA Database)


Sutton Hoo

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

John H. Phillips

Description:

"This film shows the excavation of a 7th-century ship at Sutton Hoo led by Charles Phillips, a fellow at Cambridge." (EAFA Database)


Sunny Clacton

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

William King

Description:

Amateur colour film of a fundraising carnival and summer activities at Clacton-on-Sea in the month before World War II was declared. (EAFA)


Some Experiments in Dufaycolor

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Eunice Alliott

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Series of short films of gardens, landscapes and dogs. Footage includes the gardens at the Alliott house in Amersham and country locations near Amersham." (EAFA Database)


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