The pictures and sounds of the day arranged to recall the events and mood of a memorable year.
Additional commentary spoken by Dudley Rolph with the recorded voices of
Sir Frank Whittle K.B.E., C.B., F.R.S.: 'By the end of 1936 I was confident I had the answer... the first jet engine'.
Leslie Thomas: 'For the League of Nations 1936 was the crucial testing point'.
Jessie Matthews: 'It was boom, time in the British cinema. British musicals were at their peak'.
Frank Owen: 'In Fleet Street we knew of the King's friendship with an American lady but we regarded it entirely as his private life'.
C. Day Lewis: 'To my generation in Europe the Spanish Civil War was the turning point of our lives'.
BBC Film Unit
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