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- BFI identifier15596
- Date1944-01-10 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThe career of an actor's dresser in the Navy is recounted from his training to his receipt of the D.S.M. at Buckingham Palace. (Synopsis) Propaganda story about a clumsy theatrical dresser, who becomes a skilled mechanic with the Fleet Air Arm. Note: A shorter version (1930ft) of this film is also held. This may be the overseas version of the film. (Shotlist)
- Work historyDedicated to the Fleet Air Arm.
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Michael Powell
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger
Production Company: Archers Film Productions
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Title
The Volunteer (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/2A17-AA0E-5BBC-386D-A7C8-HCategory
Non Fiction (Public Record)This work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available from BFI Archive Sales
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
Digital Betacam - Video - Viewing
DVD - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsVolunteer - WWII short, forty minute recruitment / propaganda film. Fred Davey is not much of a theatrical dresser, as his thespian boss, played by Ralph Richardson, discovers. But he finds his true vocation in the forces. Powell and Pressburger made this stirring mini-feature, which follows a young volunteer's progress from enlistment in the Navy's Fleet Air Arm to his subsequent decoration for valour. Written and directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Cast including: Ralph Richardson, Pat McGrath, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Laurence Olivier [The Volunteer was made swiftly, but under difficult conditions. Filmed on board air craft carrier "Indomitable", which was at sea and likely to engage in action at any time] Please note: for other cuttings on the film see MLP-1-1-54-5-1-1 [Large scrapbook of cuttings for A Canterbury Tale (1943)] including reviews and a double page illustrated trade ad in Kinematograph Weekly pasted onto the final page 11 November 1943 - MLP-1-1-53
Script & story development - MLP-1-1-53-1
Post-production - MLP-1-1-53-2
Reel-by reel synopsis - File containing: - typescript single sheet listing the 5 reels of the film and synopsis of scenes within each reel [for post-production use?] no date c. 1943 - three further copies of the above [formerly Box 53 267.27] - MLP-1-1-53-2-1
Exhibition - MLP-1-1-53-4
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257961
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257962
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1257963
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257964
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-a3i
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Work - 15596 - 1944-01-10 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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