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Industry

Working life and Industry is a strong theme running through many of the moving image archive collections and is illustrated through films of agricultural work, heavy industry and manufacturing, office life, services and retailing.

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A Family Tradition (1953) Screen Archive South East
A River Speaks (1947) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
A Romance of Co-operation (1953) East Anglian Film Archive
An Eye to the Future (1966) East Anglian Film Archive
Building Works and Behind the Scenes (1935 - 1938) Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Co-operation (1972) Media Archive for Central England
Dartington Forestry and Sawmill (1920s) The South West Film & Television Archive
Dewsbury Blanket Mills (1932) Yorkshire Film Archive
Eldorado Ice Cream Commercial (1938) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Enough to Make Your Hair Curl (1976) Screen Archive South East
Forest Heritage (1950s) Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Future Craftsmen (1972) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Going Places (1954) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Goyt Valley Scenes (1928/1931 - 1933) North West Film Archive
Harrogate, Boardroom of the North (1970) Yorkshire Film Archive
In the Garden of England (1938) Screen Archive South East
Milnrow and Newhey Gazette (1913) North West Film Archive
Mitchell and Kenyon 58: Pendlebury Colliery (c.1900) BFI NFTVA - Non-Fiction Collection
Movies for You (1955) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Queen of He(a)rts (c.1952) East Anglian Film Archive
Seawards The Great Ships (1960) Scottish Screen Archive
South Crofty Tin Mine (1934) The South West Film & Television Archive
The Face of Scotland (1938) Scottish Screen Archive
To Build an Island’s Future (1954) Media Archive for Central England
Workers' Week End (1943) Imperial War Museum
Your Tea Madam (1932) Northern Region Film and Television Archive

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