Kay Mander

A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.

Captures life in rural Oxfordshire in the mid-1940s.

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.

A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.

Captures life in rural Oxfordshire in the mid-1940s.

A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A Canadian boy visits cousins in Scotland; his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, but disappears when the lad proves himself by riding a horse over dangerous country to bring aid to an injured shepherd.

A short feature aimed at British schoolboys in 1944 encouraging them to register for apprenticeships in the building trade.

Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.

Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

British documentary on the use of Penicillin.

Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.

Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.

A Saturday morning for a family in a London suburb. An English language teaching aid for the Linguaphone Institute, presumably distributed abroad and for screenings in schools and in English as a Second Language classes.

Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.

Commissioned to make a film about a pilot health scheme in the Highlands and Islands, Mander decided against a straightforward documentary approach, recording doctors and nurses going about their work, and instead wrote her own storyline about a medical emergency and recruited actors to play it out.

Directed by innovative British filmmaker Kay Mander, this is a curiosity for devotees of public information films. School children act out new ideas for post-war education and investigate hidden histories near home, exploring industries, farms and Roman ruins around Bishop Auckland, then present an exhibition for local folk. Actuality footage of Wilsons Forge (closed in 1997) serves today as an elegy for one of the lost traditional industries in North East England.