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BEFORE HINDSIGHT
(1977)
- Copyright date
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- Production start date
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- Production end date
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Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
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NFA Catalogue
An examination of the workings of editorial attitude in the non-fiction British cinema of the thirties towards the rise of Nazism and Fascism and the events which led to the outbreak of the Second World War. The film is made up of newsreel footage, cinema documentary footage and rare footage of left-wing newsreels from the thirties.
Top five credits
- Director
- LEWIS, Jonathan
- Production Company
- Metropolis Pictures
- Sponsor
- British Film Institute Production Board
- Executive Producer
- TAYLOR-MEAD, Elizabeth
- Collaborator
- CUTHBERTSON, Hugh
Top five cast
- On-screen Participant
- CAMERON, James
- On-screen Participant
- ANSTEY, Edgar
- On-screen Participant
- ELVIN, George
- On-screen Participant
- MITCHELL, Leslie
- On-screen Participant
- MONTAGU, Ivor