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Now You're Talking (Original title)
Date: May 1940 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Synopsis: A dramatised story illustrating the ease with which careless talk may give away vital secrets: a disgruntled factory worker enables enemy agents to blow up an explosives laboratory.Synopsis: Short showing results of information given away by a lorry driver working at an aeroplane factory.Synopsis: Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.

Genre:
Government sponsored film

Subjects:
World War II, Propaganda
Releases
Date: May 1940Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 11 mins Length: 1058 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 11 January 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 12 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (3)
In: Documentary News Letter v1 n5 May 1940  Page: 17
Title: [Documentary News Letter - v1 n5 May 1940: no known title]Language: English

In: Kinematograph Weekly n1724 2 May 1940
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1724 2 May 1940: no known title]Language: English

In: Today's Cinema v54 n4393 26 Mar 1940
Title: [Today's Cinema - v54 n4393 26 Mar 1940: no known title]Language: English