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The Battle of the Books
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1940Item number (ISN):135792Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ONTARIO FILM INSTITUTEAccession:1977-0204Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1940Production company:Paul Rotha ProductionsProduction credit:director, Jack Chambers; producer, Paul Rotha; music, Charles Brill; narrator, Henry AinleySponsor:Ministry of InformationDescription:Books as purveyors of wisdom, propaganda, and knowledge. Film opens with sequence on the burning of 25000 books outside the Berlin University. In England, people seek out books of all kinds to pass the day, to learn, or to entertain themselves. The publishing industry carries out its mission of providing good books cheaply and abundently while libraries strive to preserve their treasures by means of such new techniques as microfilming. The film presents the difference between the English and the German peoples as being a function of the former's search for truth and the latter's passive acceptance of "warped Nazi propaganda".Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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