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Title: HELL UNLTD

Reference number: 1099

Date: 1936

Director: filmed by Norman McLaren and Helen Biggar

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.34 mins

Description: Powerful anti-war film detailing the cost in dead and wounded, and the resultant economic depression of the 1914-1918 war. The film graphically illustrates the horrors of another war.

One of a number of films made by members of the Glasgow School of Art Kinecraft Society (GSAKS).

Entered for the 1937 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

See British Film Institute's Screenonline entry for more information about this film at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/440480/index.html [last accessed 22/11/2010]

Credits: "This film is addressed to all who are made to pay each day for their own and other people's destruction, to all who are taxed just now to pay for the future murder of millions of men, women and children, and especially to those who sit back and say "we can do nothing about".

Shotlist: Credits. Powerful anti-war film detailing the cost in dead and wounded and the resultant economic depression of the 1914-1918 war. Strong attack on arms manufacturers and dealers, as well as the Government's excessive defence expenditure. Film projects the inevitable outcome of such arms build-ups and the "deterrant theory" by graphically illustrating the horrors of another war and the grim aftermath of same, e.g. disease, physically wrecked country, etc. (14.34)