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  1. Millions Like Us (1943 Film)

    Director
    Frank Launder
    Producer
    Edward Black
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. The project had its origins in a Ministry of Information commission for a film about life on the home front. The directors chose to concentrate on a woman factory worker and to describe her...

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  2. They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942 Film)

    Subject
    Economics; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Stresses the importance of repairing existing civilian vehicles as a means of shielding new vehicle production for military priority and shows the ability of women to take on this sort of work. It also...

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  3. Jane Brown Changes Her Job (1941 Film)

    Director
    Harold Cooper
    Producer
    Sydney Box; James Carr
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A recruiting film for factory work. An attractive upper-class lady heeds the call, leaves her boring typing job, goes on a government trining course, learns how to use tools and read blueprints and then...

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  4. Mrs John Bull Prepared (1918 Film)

    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The most extensive compilation made at the time about the role of British women in the First World War. Beginning with a fantasy sequence which shows the Spirit of Womanhood overcoming male chauvinist...

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  5. Women’s Land Army, The (1917 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A Women’s Land Army recruitment film. It compares unfavourably the idle ways of the ‘ladies of leisure’ with the patriotic endeavour of the WLA whose activities were helping to counter the U-boats’...

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  6. Building Your Future: Women in the Building Trade

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £15.00

    Made by the Women in Manual Trades Group, this programme shows the problems, both physical and psychological, which have to be overcome when a woman decides that she would like to be a skilled worker in the...

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