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Family Portrait (1950) - extract

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Channel: BFI · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Family Portrait is available on The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary For Timothy - released on Dual Format Edition 15 July 2013 - http://bit.ly/15I992n

Family Portrait was commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its official task was to cheer up a nation that had been exhausted, impoverished and in many ways demoralized, both by six years of all-out war and by the drab and anti-climactic post-war years, in which wartime austerity measures had been continued and threatened to carry on forever. The Festival was at once an effort to promote high spirits and a boast of great things to come, as the country forged ever better and brighter new technologies that would make it a world leader in a new way.

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