The Face of Britain (film)

The Face of Britain is a 1935 documentary directed by Paul Rotha for Gaumont-British Instructuinal.^[1] It was sponsored (uncredited) by the Central Electricity Board and included material showing how the newly built National Grid (1928–33) could play a major role in the necessary reorganisation of British industry that was also one of the themes of the film.^[2]

References

^ Face of Britain, The (1935). Jez Stewart, BFI screenonline. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
^ "'The Shell of a Prosperous Age': History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha's The Face of Britain (1935)" by Timothy Boon in Christopher Lawrence & Anna-K. Mayer (Eds.) (2000). Regenerating England: Science, Medicine and Culture in Inter-war Britain. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi. pp. 107–148 (pp. 111–116). ISBN 90-420-0911-X.

External links

The Face of Britain at IMDb

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[1] Face of Britain, The (1935). Jez Stewart, BFI screenonline. Retrieved 7 August 2019.

[Reg-2] "'The Shell of a Prosperous Age': History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha's The Face of Britain (1935)" by Timothy Boon in Christopher Lawrence & Anna-K. Mayer (Eds.) (2000). Regenerating England: Science, Medicine and Culture in Inter-war Britain. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi. pp. 107–148 (pp. 111–116). ISBN 90-420-0911-X.

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