Donald Alexander

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.

"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.

A short feature illustrating just how medical science deals with the after effects of accidents and injuries.

Profile of the city of Dundee, Scotland and its industries.

Childcare for working women during the Second World War.

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

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

About the war effort in the West Indies.

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

A portrait of the people and places of the Tayside region of Scotland.

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

A film about the National Health Act that established the NHS, and how it benefitted communities. It starts with a bleak look, when coordinated patient care is non-existent, patients cannot see the right specialist when they need to and a family is split up over Christmas.

A documentary examining the industries of Scotland, new and old.

The 237th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Marilyn', 'Sight Restored' and 'North Star'.