Development of the English Town

Name: Development of the English Town
Director: Mary Field
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1943-01-23
Duration: 16 min
Rating: 7.0

194316m

★ 7.0

Documentary

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!

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