Kay Mander

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 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.

Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.

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

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

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.

A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII

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

British documentary on the use of Penicillin.

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

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.

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

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