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- A study of child delinquency in Scotland
- WW2 short showing a single night shift in the no.11 Royal Ordnance factory in Newport, South Wales, producing tanks.
- Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as they were, houses as they are and houses as they might be.
- Ministry of Information propaganda short illustrating how irresponsible citizens can distort war news by repeating and embellishing rumours.
- The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.
- Public information film about the need to salvage old rags for the war effort.
- Childcare for working women during the Second World War.
- About the war effort in the West Indies.
- Viewers are shown how to minimise wear to clothing, an important thing to do during world war two.
- A fascinating film showing how all unglamorous jobs actually contribute to the war effort.
- Four parts: dockers beat all records unloading and loading a convoy ship; railings for salvage leaves parks open to the general public; David Low presents anti-Nazi cartoons from the USSR; and the Hi, Gang team perform a humorous sketch.
- The Nazis' book-burning is contrasted with the wartime boom in reading and publishing in Britain.
- World War II propaganda film that shows the war-time agricultural work of women from the Women's Institute.
- This film covers the history of books and printing, and the production of a sample (fictional) novel, from the final word of the manuscript to its arrival on the shelves of the shops. It also features brief interviews from figures such as T.S.Eliot and Dame Rebecca West, a robust defence of sensational fiction by "Sapper" of Bulldog Drummond fame, and a lyrical closing statement on the magic and potential of the humble book.