Movies: Central Office Of Information For Foreign Office

The film opens with an image of a refugee dying beside a wall. The place is Berlin in 1962. Various shots of the wall and its defences follow. The film shows people attempting to cross to West Berlin after the wall was built. We are given a history o...

‘This week in Britain’ was one of a series of magazine films or Cinemagazines produced by the COI for consumption abroad to promote Britain and the Commonwealth. Produced between 1959 and 1979, and shown in cinemas as well as on television, each fil...