Results: Stories
9 results found for '"Spectator Short Films"' in Credits.
Should we Grow More food?
- Date released
- 1938
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 352064
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: A farmer’s and housewife’s point of view on whether we should grow more food, or import more produce.
(Untitled record)
- Date released
- 1939
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 352065
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS synopsis: The arguments for and against state run hospitals.
Why make up - why not?
- Date released
- 1939
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 352066
- Story no
- 2 / 2
NoS synopsis: The arguments for and against the wearing of make-up. Reasons in favour focus on the number of people employed in the manufacture and sale of cosmetics. Includes two brief sketches showing a...
Too many milkmen down your street?
- Date released
- 1939
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 352473
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS synopsis: The arguments for and against the centralised distribution of milk to the consumer. Laments the loss of the individual relationships formed by milkmen if the service were centralised.
Should non-voters lose the vote?
- Date released
- 1939
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 352474
- Story no
- 2 / 2
NoS synopsis: Discusses whether members of the public who do not vote should be deprived of their voting rights.
Transport on Trial
- Date released
- 1939
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 352945
- Story no
- 1 / 1
Today’s Cinema synopsis: Mr. Pro wants all transport to be unified under one government department, but Mr. Con argues that the railways themselves should be left to settle the question. The film produces...
Drifting in danger
- Date released
- Apr 1940
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 352011
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: Mr Pro and Mr Con argue about the plight of the herring industry and whether the 1935 policy of the Herring Industry Board was right or wrong.
What is Federation?
- Date released
- Aug 1940
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 352020
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: Ivan Scott chairs a discussion between Mr Pro and Mr Con about Federation. Federation is presented as not new, since it consists largely of the simple plea that a world knit together by trade,...
Man or Machine?
- Date released
- Jan 1941
- Series name
- Point of View
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 352025
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: Two sides argue about mass-production. First, craftsmanship, its products expressions of a man’s skill, the work a real satisfaction for the craftsman. Second, mass-production with its...