About the film
A typical school day for the three children of the Brown family at Nursery, Junior, and Senior Schools, and the principles behind their education.
Details
- Release year
- 1941
- Director
- Harold Purcell
- Production company
- Merton Park Studios Ltd
- Cinematographer
- Jimmy Rogers
- Editor
- Royden Stocks
- Sound recording
- Al Rhind
- Running time (minutes)
- 13 mins 33 secs
Original Description
British Children at School
'Britain has many well-planned new schools with modern equipment. These are described in the picture of a day in Billy Brown’s Nursery School, his sister’s Junior School, and the Senior School where his brother is a prefect. At all stages of education, children learn to be useful citizens.'
(Films of Britain - British Council Film Department Catalogue - 1947-50)
Trivia
- The senior school featured in this film is Northwood School in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The same building still stands there today (see on google maps).
- Director Harold Purcell would later go on to write the lyrics to the long-remembered theme song of the television series The Adventures of William Tell (1958-1959).
