The Kid from Canada
A Canadian boy visits cousins in Scotland; his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, but disappears when the lad proves himself by riding a horse over dangerous country to bring aid to an injured shepherd.
Kay Mander
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Kay Mander
A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.
A documentary on the housing problems of Great Britain following WWII
Commissioned to make a film about a pilot health scheme in the Highlands and Islands, Mander decided against a straightforward documentary approach, recording doctors and nurses going about their work, and instead wrote her own storyline about a medical emergency and recruited actors to play it out.
Directed by innovative British filmmaker Kay Mander, this is a curiosity for devotees of public information films. School children act out new ideas for post-war education and investigate hidden histories near home, exploring industries, farms and Roman ruins around Bishop Auckland, then present an exhibition for local folk. Actuality footage of Wilsons Forge (closed in 1997) serves today as an elegy for one of the lost traditional industries in North East England.
British documentary on the use of Penicillin.
Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.
Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.
