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The Face of Britain is a 1935 documentary directed by Paul Rotha for Gaumont-British Instructuinal. It was sponsored (uncredited) by the Central Electricity Board and included material showing how the newly built National Grid (1928–33) could play a major role in the necessary reorganisation of British industry that was also one of the themes of the film.

References

1. Face of Britain, The (1935). Jez Stewart, BFI screenonline. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
2. "'The Shell of a Prosperous Age': History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha's The Face of Britain (1935)" by Timothy Boon in Christopher Lawrence & Anna-K. Mayer (Eds.) (2000). Regenerating England: Science, Medicine and Culture in Inter-war Britain. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi. pp. 107–148 (pp. 111–116). ISBN 90-420-0911-X.

External links

• The Face of Britain at IMDb

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