Listen to Britain (1942) - extract

[TheGREATEST95]

it looks like america at the same time or america looks like britian

[mickram23]

Does anyone else think the footage of the dancers is just as spectacular as any modern cgi dominated film. These filmakers were incredible.

[chanctonbury63]

If anyone wanted to dance clockwise there`d be a riot!

[BritsPrerogative]

for the time, this is beautiful

[astralagosto]

The lesbians are 1:50. Just to let everyone know because one could never find them at 1:56.

Cheers!!!!!

[kitkat6026]

@astralagosto just to let you know women were dancing with each other because the men were in short supply incase you dont know there was a war on and men were away fighting and dieing,my mum can remember doing this at dances so what has lesbians got to do with it,honestly get ya mind out of the gutter

[astralagosto]

@kitkat6026 My mind is not in the gutter. Lesbians are nice people so my mind is not in the gutter. Why didn't you reply to the original poster of the lesbian joke down in the comments sections?????He wrote it last year. It went like Lesbians weren't invented until 1964. You should have replied to him first instead of me. Get a life!!!! Life is not always serious.

[dagwood151]

It's a bit different to the wine-bars and discos we have today but whichever era a good time is there to be had.

[terrificly]

I spotted one chap WITHOUT a tie.

How did he get passed the bouncers?

Loved the crack about the lesbians nasilemak2008, the comments on these films are really worth checking out.

Some real gems

[bearcub410]

bless them all

[soulfly6ft3]

1:56 lol

[soulfly6ft3]

1:65 ladies dancing together

[nasilemak2008]

Couldn't be lesbians. They weren't invented until about 1964.

[Project25o1]

I listened to this with my eyes closed and its really strange, my imagination took over as if I was in WW2 Britain. wow

[ScriptWorker]

I'd like to see the whole thing. Any ideas?

[caley956]

Yes, buy it off the BFI website - along with many others.

[tvfilmglamdirector]

They would be shocked I'm sure to think how much effort they put in to stop invaders reaching our shores, now we have drilled a tunnel right the way though and opened the gates. Well at least we're friendly.

[DADRENO]

We had a pair of Landgirls lodging with us during the war.

[loris711]

Isn't this a clip from the 1942 documentary, "Listen to Britain?"

[kazbah1923]

Yes, by Humphrey Jennings ..

[loris711]

Thank you, that's it! I had seen it years ago and remembered the dance episode. Can anyone tell me about this dancing? They are moving so quickly in the circle, almost at a walking stride. I've never seen anything like this before.