A series of films about Britain from 1945 to 1951.
Britain Can Make it
With the country facing bankruptcy, all hands are needed to get British industry going again. Cinema advertisements appeal to young mothers to return to work and, as a steelworker remembers:
'There was nobody on the dole at all. You could start work at one place and if you got fed up at 10 o'clock you could be in a new job by 2.0.' The world is clamouring for
British goods. Nationalisation promises a new dawn in industrial relations and, for a time, it seems the unemployment of the 1930s has gone for ever.
Film editor CHRISTOPHER HALE Producer PETER GRIMSDALE Executive producer
ANGELA HOLDSWORTH
(An exhibition based on the series can be seen at the Museum of London in the Barbican until January). Book, £10.95 from booksellers