Mary Beales

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.