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DOCUMENTARY FILM NEWS
55
COI Report
being a list of Central Office of Information releases January-June 1948
Title
Production Unit
Details oj Distribution
Notes
Vnswer Four Questions Ajiy Time to Spare
Charley's March of Time
Crete — Part 2 Crete— Part 3 Crete — Part 4 Down to the Sea
Falkland".
Furnival and Son
Here's Health
History of Writing
Home Service
How to Make Chutneys and
Sauces
How to Make Pickles
How to Use the Telephone
Miners' Weekend
Minesweeping Moving Millions
Pop Goes the Weasel
Precise Measurement for Engineers
Crown Film Unit
Geoffrey Plumbley Productions
H.i Lis and Batchelor Production
Editorial Film Productions Editorial Film Productions Editorial Film Productions Greenpark Productions
Editorial Film Productions
Crown Film Unit
Data Production
Films of Fact Ltd.
Production
Cecil Musk Production
Films of Great Britain Ltd Films of Great Britain Ltd
Public Relationship Films
Crown Film Unit
Crown Film Unit Crown Film Unit
Crown Film Unit Data Film Production
Report on Industrial Scotland Crown Film Unit
Surface Dressing with Tar A Verity Films Production
Telephone Cable Plumbing Films of Great Britain Ltd
They Gave Him the Works Greenpark
This is Britain No. 22
fhis is Britain No. 23
This is Britain, No. 24
This is Britain, No. 25
A Merlin Film Production
A Merlin Film Production
A Merlin Film Production
A Merlin Film Production
V Thousand Million a Year Anglo-Scottish
Crown Film Unit
Town Rats
Trial by Weather
/egetable Dishes /oices of Malaya 'our Children's Sleep
r*our Health
'our Very Good Health
World Wide Pictures
Films of Great Brit.im I id Crown Film Unit Realist Film Unit
Editorial Films
Halas and Batchelor Production
NT. Primarily intended for showing to children of school A recruiting film for the Civil Service. (Produced for the leaving age Ministry ofLabour)
Limited Theatrical Distribution Recruiting film for the Territorial Army and the Royal
Auxiliary \u force
Monthly release for May. Will also be available from The third of the series of coloured cartoons featuring CFL in July 'Charley'. This film dcafc with the new National Insurance
Act. (Produced for the Ministry of National Insurance)
Primarily for distribution in schools, but also available Three of a series of four films on Crete, describing the history from CFL of the island. (Produced for the Ministry of Education)
Theatrical Distribution probable. Final details not available at time of going to press
NT
theatrical distribution probable. Final details not available at time of going to press.
Theatrical distribution probable. Final details not available ai time of going to press
Part of a Visual Unit for distribution to schools
Theatrical distribution probable. Final details not available at time of going to press
Central Film Library Central Film Library
For distribution to Government Departments
NT
NT
Theatrical distribution probable. Final details not available at time of going to press
NT
NT '
Monthly Release for February NT
Limited Non-Theatrical distribution Monthly Release for June
NT NT
Commercially distributed by 20th Century Fox NT
1 inal details not available at lime of going to press
Commercial distribution by MOM
ercial distribution by Piccadilly Cinema!
Film Productions Also available from Central I ilm Library.
I he.nrit.il distribution in Scotland
Monthly release for kpril Available from Ccniral I Urn I mrarv at the end ol M I)
A film dealing with the high qualities of British shipbuilding
The work of survey in the Antarctic. (Produced for the Colonial Office)
A portrait of Sheffield. (Produced for the Board of Trade)
An explanation of the National Health Bill to the General Public. (Produced for the Ministry of Health)
To show the background of writing from the earliest time up to the present day. (Produced for the Ministry ol Education)
A picture of the British Radio and Television Industry (Produced for the Board of Trade)
An instructional film for housewives. (Produced for the Ministry of Food)
An instructional film for housewives. (Produced for the Ministry of Food)
An instructional film for Civil Servants. (Produced for the Treasury)
A picture of the way in which miners spend their spare time at weekends
An Instructional film, produced for the Admiralty
A picture of London's transport facilities. (Made for the London Transport Executive at the request of the Foreign Office)
A popular explanation of how the money raised by taxation is spent. (Produced for the Treasury)
This film shows the importance of precise measurement in all phases of modern industrial engineering and the ultimate responsibility of the National Physical Laboratory for maintaining accuracy in standards of measurement. (Produced for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research)
Theregearingof Scotland'sindustrial machine to new needs. (Produced for the Board of Trade)
Instructional film on the preparation of road surfaces. (Produced by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research)
Training film for GPO Engineers. (Produced for GPO)
To discuss what can help to make a happier factory life. (Produced for the Ministry ofLabour)
'This is Britain' is a series of magazine films. This issue contains two items:
(1) Aptitude Tests in the Royal Air Force
(2) Changing a Wavelength
'This is Britain' is a series of magazine films. This issue contains three items:
(1) Buses in Boxes
(2) Wood Engravings
(3) North Sea Cable
'This is Britain' is a series of magazine films. This issue contains three items:
(1) The Whirling Arm
(2) Gunpowder Plot
(3) Lighthouse Shop
'This is Britain' is a series of magazine films. This issue contains three items:
(1) The Fastest Tyres on Earth
(2) School for Signalmen
(3) Plaster Plus
An account of the m ork done by Cusioms and Excise duced for Customs and Excise Department)
An instruclion.il film on ral destruction for local authorities, health committees and pest operatives. (Produced tor Ministry of Food)
The Agricultural Disaster of 1947, and the measures taken to saw the harVest, (Produced for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries I
One of a series ol films on basic cooking. (Produced for the
Ministry ol food)
An account of life in Malaya iod.iv (Produced for the Colonial Office)
One ol films on ihc care of children This film
shows patents how to get their children to sleep properly, < Produced fbi the M I > alto)
An explanation of the »a> in which the National Health
e will work in Scotland
cond of the series of coloured >.i nng
"Charley' l"his film explains the workings ol « he National
Health Service