Smoking and You 1963
A Centre Office of Information (COI) production about smoking.

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Mary's Birthday 1951    star_border 4.5
The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

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The People at No. 19 1949    star_border 4.5
Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst soldiers on the frontline wasn't the sole cause. Back on the home front, for many women, like Joan from No. 19, loneliness or newfound independence acted as an incentive to extramarital promiscuity.

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Here's Health 1948
A film about the National Health Act that established the NHS, and how it benefitted communities. It starts with a bleak look, when coordinated patient care is non-existent, patients cannot see the right specialist when they need to and a family is split up over Christmas.

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Playing with Fire 1947
You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.

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Burns and Scalds 1947
Hard-hitting depiction of the danger to children of burns and scalds.

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Dover, Spring 1947 1947
Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.

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Coughs and Sneezes 1945    star_border 6
This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

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Defeat Tuberculosis 1943
British documentary on Tuberculosis.

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Dr. Wise on Influenza 1919
A hard-hitting public information film made at the height of the Great Influenza 1918-18.

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