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The 1940s house / a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Wall to Wall for Channel 4 and PBS in association with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
LIBRA DVD 017 961
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical reenactments--Great Britain.
- Historical reenactments.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--History--Bombardment, 1944-1945.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Nineteen forties house
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : PBS Home Video, 2004.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby surround stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.
- Contents:
- 17 Braemar Gardens
- The Hymer family arrives
- The Anderson shelter
- Blackout
- Rationing begins
- Danger during blackouts
- Points rationing
- Shortages hit where it hurts
- Women's volunteer service
- Changing relationships
- Kirsty's contributions
- An important guest
- America raises morale
- Holidays at Home program
- Kirsty works for the war effort
- Air raids and sleep deprivation
- Things get worse
- Nearing the end
- Peter the prefect.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Geoffrey Palmer.
- Credits:
- Director, Caroline Ross Pirie.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a documentary television mini-series in 2000.
- ISBN:
- 0793695147
- 9780793695140
- OCLC:
- 56099333
- Publisher Number:
- 841887000154
- NFOH601 PBS Home Video
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