YOUR JOB IN GREAT BRITAIN - Instructional Films for American Servicemen in Britain DVD

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From World War Two onwards, untold thousands of American services

personnel have been posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were

shown films designed to familiarise themselves with this strange and exotic country and it’s even stranger inhabitants the British.

 

This unique collection of four of these rare films captures the Great Britain of

yesteryear - as seen through the eyes of the Americans. Together they contain a treasure trove of nostalgic and highly evocative footage capturing everyday life in a bygone Britain of the 1940s and 1950s.

 

KNOW YOUR ALLY - BRITAIN (1943)

This War Department film celebrates

Britain's lone stand against the

Nazis in the early years of the

war. It describes the British- as the

'Toughest to understand of all the

Allies and paints a picture of a

nation with a great heritage but

terrible coffee!

 

THE MARSHALL PLAN AT WORK - IN GREAT BRITAIN (1951).

Britain is portrayed as stricken with poverty,

shortages and rationing in this film, which

seeks to show how the Marshall Plan will

help. put the country back on its feet by

1952.

 

YOU IN GREAT BRITAIN (1954)

Designed for US service personnel posted to

Britain in a Cold War world, this film

celebrates the bonds between America and

Britain as allies in the fight against

Communism, and seeks to explain strange

concepts like "the monarchy", pubs" and

"Drinking tea' There are stern warmings not

to intimidate impoverished "Britishers' with

your superior spending power.…and Larry

Hagman appears as a young Gl