Letter from a small town
Synopsis
Using original letters and archive film footage, these are ordinary words which tell of extraordinary lives and were written by regular and volunteer soldiers, conscripts, white feather recruiting girls, Land Girls, civilians and nurses.
The film covers propaganda, food shortages, air raids on the Home Front and battles at Mons and Gallipoli and as well as taking part in the Christmas truce in 1914 in Flanders.
Winner of a Platinum Remi-award at the Houston Film Festival
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 15 mins
- Director
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Matthew Charlton/Alex Metcalfe
- Producer
- Matthew Charlton
- Screenwriter
- Richard Broadhead
- Director of Photography
- Alex Metcalfe
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Artefact-it
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