Britain Can Make It

Dates

1945 - 1947

Category

Cinemagazine - Government

History

Britain Can Make It was a successor series to the Ministry of Information’s Worker and Warfront. It was produced by Paul Rotha’s company, Films of Fact, for the Ministry of Information and then its successor, the Central Office of Information (COI). Its intention was to promote British industrial achievement and design in a post-war age. There was a major public exhibition on design entitled ‘Britain Can Make It’ which opened in London in September 1946, but the film series preceded it and seems to have no association with it. Britain Can Make It was issued monthly, with three items per issue, some of which were shared with the COI’s other cinemagazine This is Britain. There were eighteen issues in all, each around ten minutes in length.

Provenance

NoS data comes from COI catalogues, supplemented by reviews in Documentary News Letter and the Monthly Film Bulletin.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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