The Saving of Bill Blewitt is a 1936 documentary film produced by Alberto Cavalcanti of the GPO Film Unit and directed by Harry Watt. Intended as a celebration...
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Bill Blewitt was a Cornish postman 'discovered' by film-maker Harry Watt and cast in his 1936 film The Saving of Bill Blewitt. The documentary was about...
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casting non-professionals, as they had in their previous film The Saving of Bill Blewitt. In the same style, North Sea employed minimal narration and relies...
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Mousehole (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
1936 the GPO Film Unit made The Saving of Bill Blewitt, a short film to promote the Post Office Savings Bank, featuring local postman Bill Blewitt. Mousehole...
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Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Night Mail (1936) The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1937) North Sea (1938) Squadron 992 (1939) The First Days (1939) Dover Front Line (1940)...
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GPO Film Unit (category Film production companies of the United Kingdom)
The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing...
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films, notably The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1937), as well as appearing as an actor in four other productions between 1942 and 1945. Not all the crewmen died...
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John Grierson (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Mail ( dir. (Basil Wright, and Harry Watt 1936) Saving of Bill Blewitt (dir. Basil Wright 1936) Line To The Tschierva Hut (dir. Alberto Cavalcanti 1937)...
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Ghostbusters (redirect from Manhattan Crossrip of 1984)
expected of the creative team behind Meatballs and Animal House. He singled out editors Sheldon Kahn and David Blewitt for creating a sustained pace of comedy...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Thelma Schoonmaker won for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004)...
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