Summary: "One of a film series about jobs after the war". Finding employment
Description: A general introduction, in a story framework, to the job-finding services and training schemes the government is providing, and a critique of different attitudes. An Army lieutenant and his Wren girlfriend meet a young airman and an old munitions worker: all are about to be 'demobbed' and uncertain about their futures; they agree to meet in a year to compare progress. The Wren simply visits a Labour Exchange and is immediately placed (selling dresses). The Airman, an apprentice mechanic pre-war, is reluctant to revert to 'boy' status and the garage has anyway been bombed: a Resettlement Advice Centre finds out that the garage will reopen, outlines the 'Interrupted Apprenticeship Scheme' and finds him a training school place. The Lieutenant is reluctant to seek advice but when he does is found an accountancy job using his army experience and letting him study for proper qualifications. The munitions worker, gloomy and uncooperative, seems unemployable until the LE manager discovers his aptitude/hobby, fretwork: he is successfully trained in joinery. The reunion.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:UKY 800
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ministry of Labour and National Service (Production sponsor)
War Office (Production sponsor)
Directorate of Army Kinematography (Production company)
Army Kinematograph Service (Production company)
Baker, Roy (Production individual)
Pitt, Ray (Production individual)
House, Jack (Production individual)
Lyndon-Haynes 'Tommy', T S (Production individual)
Morris, Harry (Production individual)
Martelli, Angela (Production individual)
Broadhouse, Lawrence (Production individual)
Wilcox, John (Production individual)
Warwick, Norman (Production individual)
Benham, Eric (Production individual)
Sims, T (Production individual)
Cox, John (Production individual)
Burningham 'Burnie', S L (Production individual)
Palmer, Ray (Production individual)
Ferderer, D 'Red' (Production individual)
Hyde-Chambers, Derek (Production individual)
Forster, Betty (Production individual)
Douglas, Leslie (Production individual)
Gillett 'Mo', Maurice (Production individual)
Stacey, N (Production individual)
Johnstone 'Johnnie', Joan (Production individual)
Alwyn, William (Production individual)
Rawsthorne, Alan1905-05-021971-07-24Obituary in The Times, 26 July 1971 p. 14. Papers held by the Royal Northern College of Music. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: administration, British - civilian: Ministry of Labour (object name)
demobilisation, British (object name)
economics, British national - employment: labour exchange (object name)
training, British civilian: vocational (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 3
Footage: 2022 ft; Running time: 22 mins
