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End of an Era

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Last broadcast on Wed, 2 Sep 2009, 21:00 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).

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Synopsis

Last in the four part series using rare, private and commercial colour film and photographs to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s.

It was Golden Age for international travel, a decade when advanced transport systems allowed people to journey all over the world. Travellers with the means recorded their experiences by using the new colour film technologies. Often unintentionally, their home movies captured defining moments at a time when the nations of Europe were about to be plunged into the disaster that was the Second World War.

The final episode features colour films shot by travelling film-makers in Europe, including footage shot on the streets of Berlin decked in red swastikas at the time of the Olympic Games, rare pictures of the Jewish quarter in Warsaw just weeks before the Nazi invasion and, in London, tourists wearing gas masks amid fears of imminent bombing raids by the German Luftwaffe.

Credits

Director
Kate Misrahi
Producer
Kate Misrahi
Executive Producer
David Okuefuna

Broadcasts

  1. Wed 6 Aug 2008
    21:00
  2. Thu 7 Aug 2008
    00:50
  3. Thu 7 Aug 2008
    03:10
  4. Wed 13 Aug 2008
    00:15
  5. Tue 9 Dec 2008
    20:00
  6. Sun 8 Mar 2009
    03:25
  7. Wed 2 Sep 2009
    21:00
  8. Mon 30 Nov 2009
    20:00
  9. Tue 1 Dec 2009
    03:30

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60 minutes

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