Fenlands (film)

1945 film by Ken Annakin

Fenlands

Directed by| Ken Annakin
Cinematography| Peter Hennessy
Edited by| Peter Scott

Production
company

Greenpark Productions

Release date

* 1945 (1945)

Running time

| 19 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

Fenlands is a 1945 British short documentary film directed by Ken Annakin for the Ministry of Information's Pattern of Britain series.[1][2] It documents the Fenlands of East Anglia, and their change from swamplands to farmlands.[3]

## Reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is a most interesting, well-directed and photographed film which gives a clear picture of this part of the country. Parts of the commentary are spoken by a farmer and fen-workers in a way which adds to the film's reality. This is a film which is both instructive and enjoyable."[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Opening with diagrammatic maps of the Fen district, this highly interesting documentary traces the history of East Anglia's marshlands from their original reclamation by Dutch engineers to their present-day status as a first-class agricultural area. It lays stress on the continuous battle with Nature. Entertaining short with educational values."[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Fenlands". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
2. ^ "Fenlands (1945)". Archived from the original on 25 May 2018.
3. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Fenlands (1945)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
4. ^ "Fenlands". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 13 (145): 76. 1 January 1946. ProQuest 1305812243.
5. ^ "Fenlands". Kine Weekly. 351 (2039): 25. 16 May 1946. ProQuest 2687792357.

## External links

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* Fenlands at IMDb
* Fenlands at the BFI's Screenonline

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Films directed by Ken Annakin

* It Began on the Clyde (1946)
* Fenlands (1946)
* Holiday Camp (1947)
* Miranda (1948)
* Broken Journey (1948)
* Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
* Quartet (1948)
* Vote for Huggett (1949)
* The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
* Landfall (1949)
* Double Confession (1950)
* Trio (1950)
* Hotel Sahara (1951)
* The Story of Robin Hood (1952)
* The Planter's Wife (1952)
* The Sword and the Rose (1953)
* You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
* The Seekers (1954)
* Value for Money (1955)
* Loser Takes All (1956)
* Three Men in a Boat (1956)
* Across the Bridge (1957)
* Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
* Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
* Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
* Very Important Person (1961)
* The Hellions (1961)
* The Fast Lady (1962)
* The Longest Day (1962)
* Crooks Anonymous (1962)
* The Informers (1963)
* Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
* Battle of the Bulge (1965)
* The Perils of Pauline (1967, part)
* The Long Duel (1967)
* The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
* Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
* The Call of the Wild (1972)
* Paper Tiger (1975)
* Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978)
* The Pirate (1978)
* The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
* Institute for Revenge (1979)
* Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
* The Pirate Movie (1982)
* The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
* Genghis Khan (unfinished)

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