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Nation on Film Series Two
The Ramsden Collection
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
The story of a newly-discovered amateur archive that sheds new light on life in post-war Britain. For 20 years, husband and wife, Betty and Cyril Ramsden, recorded the world around them. They captured...
Nation on Film Series Two
Flying With Cobham
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
5/6 in history documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history captured on film over the last 100 years. David JASON narrates the story of trail-blazing pilot Alan COBHAM’s mission to get Britons...
Nation on Film Series Two
Package Holidays
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how film was used to promote and record package-tour holidays in the 1960’s. As the package break was established, tour operators made promotional films to sell the sun,...
Nation on Film Series One
Selling Cars
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
The story of how film sold the car from sex to speed to safety from 1900’s till the very first television car advert using archive footage & interviews. Narrated by Sir David JASON.
Nation on Film Series Two
Women’s Football
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how the rise and fall of women’s football was captured on film. Professional and amatueur archive reveals how a group of World War 1 munitions workers from Preston became...
Nation on Film Series Two
Kearton’s Wildlife
- Broadcast
- 2006 (29 mins)
Sir David Jason tells the story of how a farmer’s son from Yorkshire became a pioneer of wildlife film-making and star of the silver screen. Cherry Kearton travelled the world from the 1920’s in order to...
Nation on Film
Shooting the War: VE DAY SPECIAL
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
History documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history as captured on film over the last 100 years. Newly discovered amateur & professional archive footage shows Britain during the height of World...
Nation on Film Series One
Make Yourself at Home
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
The programme looks at how, between the 1950s to the 1970s, thousands of Asian immigrants came to Britain. They came from different countries, with different languages, cultures and religions. Cine cameras...
Nation on Film Series One
Selling Salvation
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
This episode in the archive series examines how the Christian church in this country used film to offer salvation to the permissive society of the 1950s and 60s. Using a cross-section of rarely seen films,...
Nation on Film Series One
Private Passions
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
Amateur film-making boomed in the 1930s and a rich legacy of celluloid gems resides in the film archives of the country. Against a backdrop of social upheaval, most aspiring film-makers of the time chose...