Margaret Thomson

Children Growing Up with Other People

Margaret Thomson

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Hedging

Margaret Thomson

Roy Hay

Made by the Realist Film Unit for the Ministry of Agriculture, the film details how to make sturdy, long-lasting hedges.

Child's Play

Margaret Thomson

Christopher Beeny, Ernest Scott

A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.

A Family Affair

Margaret Thomson

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Making a Compost Heap

Margaret Thomson

This is a half-reel film telling its audience how to use inedible parts of plants from their garden to make compost. It seems pretty basic stuff, but there were a lot of city boys working in what were called Victory Gardens in the United States. Letting them know how easy it was to make compost for a better truck garden meant a lot of fresh food on the home front.

The Troubled Mind

Margaret Thomson

Adrienne Corri

A dramatised documentary featuring Adrienne Corri, made to recruit women for training as nurses in ‘mental hospitals.’ It takes a deeply humane and stylistically vivid approach. Some of the treatments shown would be considered unsuitable today.