Picturegoer — Week ending 9 December 1944
Betty Grable cover · “British Film Triumph” — Western Approaches wartime feature
British wartime issue of Picturegoer, week ending 9 December 1944, with Betty Grable on the colour cover. Inside, the magazine praises Crown Film Unit’s Western Approaches as a major British film achievement, stressing its Technicolor photography, real Atlantic convoy conditions and use of serving seamen rather than professional actors.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good/fair appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The Betty Grable colour cover remains vivid and highly presentable, with visible spine rubbing and small splits, top-edge chipping/short tears, edge and corner wear, light surface marks and handling creases. Rear and interior pages are age-toned but clean and highly legible.
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine rule unless the owner states otherwise. Front cover, rear page and one interior spread are supplied; no page-by-page collation has been performed.
- Date
- Week ending 9 December 1944
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; cover states “Every Other Thursday”
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- British wartime Picturegoer issue published during the Second World War; includes contemporary coverage of Crown Film Unit documentary Western Approaches
Catalogue note
British wartime issue of Picturegoer, week ending 9 December 1944, with Betty Grable on the colour cover. Inside, the magazine praises Crown Film Unit’s Western Approaches as a major British film achievement, stressing its Technicolor photography, real Atlantic convoy conditions and use of serving seamen rather than professional actors. The same spread places this documentary culture beside star publicity for Judy Garland and Madonna of the Seven Moons. The facing page and rear advertising add unusually rich home-front evidence: Ministry of Food Christmas cooking guidance, a National Savings Committee appeal, cosmetics, toiletries and hygiene products all show how entertainment, wartime duty and consumer life coexisted on the same pages.
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Archive Importance: 9.6 / 10 · Gold Star.
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