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    ... African viewer, quoted in Colonial Cinema, praised Mr English’s ‘high sense of responsibilities& ... by a local commentator.

    In its representation of England, Mr English at Home focuses on traditional signifiers ...

     
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    ... a pencil so that they can practice at home. They role play ('how do you ... to demonstrate ‘a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences’ (Gold ... closely to the ‘I Will Speak English’ textbooks. The teacher urges ...
     
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    ... Hot, damp and loud with noises strange to English ears’ – draws on dominant representations of ... 7 October 1949, 8.

    Daily Gleaner, 16 March 1950, 4.

    Home Publicity. Colonial Affairs, Colonial Month, January ...

     
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    ... ; (The Times, 14 January, 1958, 10).

    In Jamaica, where the Home Fleet stayed between 1-8 and 20-26 February, the visit ... nickname “Little England” Barbados is the most English of them all’. It further notes that &lsquo ...

     
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    ... of dialogue spoken in Fante. The characters move between English and Fante, without subtitles or attempts at translation.

    ... Housing in Ghana’ (1957).

    ‘“Ideal Homes” in Accra’, West African Review, November ...

     
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    ... from its inception’ (The Times, 24 May 1933, 17). English similarly recognised that as ‘a different concept of empire ... meals of ‘Empire origin with first preference to Home products’ (The Times, 8 April 1933, 8).& ...
     
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    ... may conversely encourage its audiences to seek change at home.

    Finally, a comparison with one of the other film ... at the National Archives, INF 6/44.

    Webster, Wendy, Englishness and Empire 1939 – 1965 ( ...

     
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    ... idea of the King speaking from his home and of the Royal Family gathered round ... under attack ­– ‘his home was struck like so many others’ ... Press, 2005), 321-340.

    Webster, Wendy, Englishness and Empire 1939 – 1965& ...

     
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    ... hand, is talking to a local – teaching English - before further shots of the physical ... film was deployed as propaganda both at home and abroad.

    These sequences were ... ’ was ‘the teaching of English to all native troops’, who ...

     
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    ... The film highlights the work of the Home Guard, showing Chinese members volunteering, ... 115). A New Life was available in English and Hakka (films were more ... their village’ through the formation of a home guard. Briggs set up the unpaid, ...
     
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    ... in digging a gun pit. A signals party tests a heliograph. English soldiers sightseeing at the mosque of San Sofia. A Cyprus ... ).

    These men were posted to Public Relations Units at home or overseas where they acted as lone camera operators. Among ...

     
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    ... editing, when subsequent films for African audiences – for example the Colonial Film Unit’s Mr English at Home (1940) ­– rely on lengthy single shots and, in the case of the Bekefilm ...