Browsing: 1940s
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24 Square Miles
(1946)
24 Square Miles is a survey of the area centred around the market
town of Banbury, in 1940's Oxfordshire. Narrated by John Arlott and
based on the findings of a 1943 study conducted by the Agricultu...
Blue Scar
(1949)
Filmed using a cast of non-actors from a South Wales community,
Jill Craigie's first and only feature uses drama-documentary
techniques to tell this story about the nationalisation of the coal
mine...
Children of the Ruins
(1948)
Documentary produced in association with UNESCO about the organisation's work with children displaced by the two world wars.
Cine Panorama
(1946)
Cine panorama of landscape from Brusselton Hill, south of Bishop Auckland. South West County Durham.
Debris Tunnelling
(1943)
A film by Kay Mander and sponsored by the Ministry of Information,
Debris Tunnelling is about rescue procedures for casualties trapped
in bombed-out buildings
Diary for Timothy, A
(1946)
A meditation on the future of Britain towards the end of the Second World War, told to a six-month old baby called Timothy. While celebrating the war effort, including those out fighting and those wor...
Fires Were Started/I Was a Fireman
(1943)
A day and a night with the Auxiliary Fire Service in London during the Blitz of 1940/41. The film is disputably both fiction and documentary as it is a re-enactment of 'real' events using actual A.F.S...
Highland Doctor
(1943)
Kay Mander's film is a dramatised account of the the government
subsidised Highland and Islands Medical Service, which was
increased by the 'air ambulance', and whose medical facilities
improved af...
Histoire de Poissons
(1949)
The third of Kay Mander's films about the French language and
featuring la famille Martin.
Homes for the People
(1947)
A film by Kay Mander which discusses the problems of housing in
poverty stricken areas of Britain.
How To File
(1941)
The minor attention this short film has attracted derives from its
having been the first production directed by influential female
documentarist Kay Mander, for the Shell Film Unit. It is perhaps
b...
How, What and Why?
(1948)
How, What and Why, made for the Children's Film Foundation, was
three episodes in one, each with an animated subject, about how and
why they happened, such as "why does the outside horse on a
round...
La Famille Martin
(1948)
An educational film designed to pep up French teaching in school,
La Famille Martin, along with Kay Mander's other two films of this
kind, was praised at the time for its entertainment value despite...
Listen to Britain
(1942)
With no spoken commentary or interviews, the film employs a series of tableaux of everyday life in wartime Britain, linking them into a coherent whole with the use of associative editing. The importan...
Mobilising Procedure
(1942)
A film made for the National Fire Service as part of unifying the
system of command - how to give instructions and coordinate ways of
working- to be sent to the regions.
New Builders
(1944)
A recruitment film for the Ministry of Works by Kay Mander, calling
for people to rebuild Britain.
Out of Chaos
(1944)
Reportedly the first film made about modern art, it is about the
artists Graham Sutherland, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore and Paul
Nash. It explores the effect of the Second World War on the
public'...
Penicillin
(1944)
This documentary on penicillin - at the time in frequent use for
treatment of war wounds - includes Alexander Fleming re-enacting
his discovery of the penicillin mould. It is co-directed by Kay
Man...
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