[Inspector Abberline]

Captured (1959)
Directed by John Krish,this docu drama,shows what it was like being held captive during the Korean war.Unfortunately for director John Krish,he made such a great job at showing the mental and physical torture at the the hands of the Koreans that his film was made unavailable to the public and used for army training purposes only. It certainly is a harrowing depiction,not because its graphically brutal more the fact the torture is a mundane repetitiousness of sleep depredation and guards being annoying.The other shock is a certain Wilfred Brambell as a captured soldier looking remarkably young.Filmed somewhere in some waste land in Chobham Surrey,the sets and landscape look remarkably barren and desolate,then again Kubrick made Full Metal Jacket on the wastelands of Battersea so anything possible.
Sewing Machine (John Krish, 1973, 1 min)
Public information films can some how manage to convey everything from horror to stupidity,and pretty much evey human emotion in between.A mother is at her sewing machine while her daughter is in the garden playing,there's a timer ticking down from one minute.The mother warns the child to stay away from the busy traffic,but the girl being unsupervised rushes out into the road to see her best mate,well no prizes here for the outcome.You wanna hear something shocking,they got complaints about this pif not because the child is killed,but because her friend was a little black girl,what a nice place 70's Britain was.
The Finishing Line,(1977)
How does director John Krish show vandalism on Britain's railway lines without actually showing vandalism,this was the remit he was given before making this wonderful public information film.This film time capsule fits in wonderfully with the era 1977,the year punk broke out and hell was let loose.And that's exactly what Krish does here.A little boy sitting on a railway bridge fantasises about having a School sports day set on a railway line,so we have kids in sport day kits climbing the fences and rushing across the lines,we have throw the rocks through the windows of passing train and see how many commuters you can brain,and that Olympic standard walking down a train tunnel in the dark,all over looked and officiated by teachers and parents alike.Smashing stuff.
Searching (John Krish, 1974, 1 min)
Just the POV camera roaming through the remains of the shell of a house that has been burnt down,with the soundtrack of the children screaming and crying trying to escape there deaths,nuff said.A remarkable collection of PIF's which also includes HMP about three rookie wardens learning the ropes at different prisons,If your a fan of the PIF I have no hesitation in recommending this.