Changes made to Ships with Wings (1942)
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Created on Sunday, 15th February 2009, 19:30
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- Change #1 - 158] <newline> <newline>Movies made in the midst of WWII generally had some contribution to make to the war effort, even if this was a confusing mix of good old fashioned escapist entertainment and motivational propaganda. So when genuine documentary footage is added to the mix, the resulting movie could get pretty confusing – and this is certainly the case with this Ealing made wartime melodrama. <newline> <newline>Alberto Cavalcanti and Harry Watt, two documentary film-makers, arrived at Ealing in 1941, and brought with them a greater realism than the studio[apost]s previous output. <newline> <newline>[imgmc=0000208910.jpg|0000113159] <newline> <newline>In fact,
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[imgmc=0000208910.jpg|0000113159] [imgmc=0000208905.jpg|0000113154]All war time movies had to get official approval from Government who were as keen as they could to ensure consistency of wartime message and apparently Churchill himself took issue with the film which seemed to suggest that the fate of the whole fleet rested on a single individual’s self sacrifice. But he was persuaded not to ban it as it seemed to have some spirited and motivational value. <newline> <newline>[imgmc=0000208906.jpg|0000113155] <newline> <newline>For lovers of related anecdotes, during shooting Ealing Studios Stage 2 was hit and badly damaged by German bombs though naturally this was not the sort of thing that would put a chap off his film-making. <newline> <newline> -
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Created on Sunday, 15th February 2009, 19:16
First Submitted by Stuart McLean