Formerly the G.P.O. Film Unit, it was an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information during World War II. Its remit was to make films for the general public in Britain and abroad. Output included short information and documentary films, as well as longer drama-documentaries. It continued to produce films, as part of the Central Office of Information (COI), until it was disbanded.
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Crown Film Unit
G.P.O. Film Unit, later Crown Film Unit, pioneers of documentary film making,...
Detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, into a well-off family, where a bust has been erected, as Agatha Miller. Married Archie Christie in 1914. In WW1 she trained and worked in a p...
Actor. Born Liverpool. Married Mike Leigh. Has worked very successfully in the theatre, cinema, TV and radio.
Actor. Born Shirley Broomfield in Bolton, Lancashire. She started her career as a glamour model. Laurence Olivier chose her to play the prime female role in the film 'The Entertainer' and she also ...
It closed as an Odeon in 1972 and was taken over by an independent distributor. It re-opened as the Capitol in 1975, closing in 1981. Demolished to make way for the Hobart Court office block. 2025...
Former film and television studios. Originally Henry Chinnery of Weir House allowed filmmakers to use his greenhouse. Dedicated studios were built in the 1910s and were expanded and renamed. By th...
Physician, physicist and natural philosopher. Born Colchester. Regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism. Died in London, probably of the bubonic pla...
Virginians seem keen on sending us their soil: in 1921 they gave us a statue of one of their great men, George Washington, along with som...
English Heritage Augustus Siebe, 1788 - 1872, pioneer of the diving helmet, lived and worked here.
JP, DL., Chairman of the Hornsey District Council.
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