Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain is a 1942 British propaganda short film by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister. The film was produced during World War II by the Crown Film Unit, an organisation within the British Governments Ministry of Information to support the Allied war effort. The film was nominated for the inaugural Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1943, but lost against four other Allied propaganda films. It is noted for its nonlinear structure and its use of sound.
Before the introduction was added, Edward Anstey in The Spectator thought the film would be a complete disaster. Writing in the Documentary News Letter, Anstey complainedHowever, Anstey admitted that Listen To Britain had enormous influence overseas and the film went down very well with audiences. Helen de Mouilpied later the wife of Denis Forman, the deputy head of nontheatrical distribution for the Ministry of Information, recalled ........
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