Home of Your Own

Home of Your Own 1951

1

A documentary on Hemel Hempstead, the most advanced of the new towns.

1951

Dover, Spring 1947

Dover, Spring 1947 1947

1

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.

1947

Mining Review 7th Year No. 8

Mining Review 7th Year No. 8 1954

1

The 80th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Anthracite Field', 'Time Out', 'Bowhill On Top' and 'Ideas Man'.

1954

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 3

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 3 1948

1

The 15th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the articles: 'Central Workshops', 'A Pit Is Reborn (3): Machrihanish', 'Miners' Health Centre', 'Shipyard for Colliers' and 'Cue for Ladies'.

1948

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11

Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 1949

6.50

The 23rd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the articles: 'Safety First', 'Paying For It' and ' A Star Drops In'.

1949

Code Name: Westward Ho!

Code Name: Westward Ho! 1949

1

"They’re not so very different from our own people, are they?" A sensitive depiction of European workers in the UK.

1949

Triumph Over Deafness

Triumph Over Deafness 1946

1

Instead of learning sign-language, deaf children are taught to speak and lip-read so that they might interact with others as easily as possible. This is a shortened version of 'Education of the Deaf'.

1946

Mining Review 13th Year No. 8

Mining Review 13th Year No. 8 1960

1

The 152nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: '35 Years After', 'Stormy Genius' ( documenting the filming of 'Sons and Lovers'), 'East Wemyss' and 'Lot 150'.

1960

Service for Southend

Service for Southend 1957

1

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way for a new stage in the modernisation plan for British Railways. How it was done and the men who did it.

1957

Fair Rent

Fair Rent 1947

7.00

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man goes head to head with his greedy landlady.

1947

Mining Review

Mining Review 1948

1

One of a series of newsreels made about mining

1948

Mining Review 10th Year No. 8

Mining Review 10th Year No. 8 1957

1

The 118th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the article 'Hungarians in Britain', 'Double Dutch', 'Pulsed Infusion' and 'Songs of the Coalfields 1: The Sandgate Nursing Man'.

1957

The Island

The Island 1952

1

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community.

1952

Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5

Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5 1950

1

Another edition of the industry cinemagazine, featuring three film articles. Pipeline to Pimlico: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local housing, includes scenes of building the new flats and opens with scenes from the film Passport to Pimlico featuring the commentator John Slater. Hot Stuff: champion fire brigade at Brodsworth Colliery. The brigade (who are part-time firemen) is seen at practice. Full Support: Tromit gatehead safety device, Wales, at the New Cross Hands Colliery.

1950

Birth-day

Birth-day 1945

1

Encourages mothers to seek medical advice from the earliest stages of pregnancy and to take advantage of existing maternity services.

1945

Wash and Brush Up

Wash and Brush Up 1953

1

Number 73020, a standard Class 5 locomotive, has been in traffic for sixteen days, and goes back to the sheds for cleaning inside and out and a detailed mechanical check-up. A team of men, each with his special job, takes over. Before they are reassembled, the parts are inspected; then steam raising begins again. After vacuum tests by the crew, coal is taken on, water topped up, and less than twenty-seven hours after entering the sheds 73020 is back on duty.

1953

Chasing the Blues

Chasing the Blues 1946

1

A short film that shows a mill owner that improves working conditions to improve worker productivity.

1946

Cotton Come Back

Cotton Come Back 1946

1

A short film trying to stop people in the North of England from worrying about losing their cotton industry jobs.

1946

Mining Review 7th Year No. 12

Mining Review 7th Year No. 12 1954

1

The 84th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'At Home', 'Tamworth Gala', 'Cut & Carry' and 'Balletomines'.

1954

Mining Review 13th Year No. 4

Mining Review 13th Year No. 4 1959

1

The 148th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'The Art of Mining', 'Speaking Through Coal', 'Mounted Minors' and 'Record Pit'.

1959