Series Histories - Detail
Britain Can Make It
- Dates:
- 1945 - 1947
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. There were eighteen issues in all, each around ten minutes in length. It shared some stories with the COI's cinemagazine This is Britain.
Provenance
BUND data comes from COI catalogues, supplemented by reviews in Documentary News Letter and the Monthly Film Bulletin.
Where to see the film:
- BFI Archive Footage Sales
- BFI National Archive
