Housewives' Choice
British women on the Home Front,
1926-1955
Friday 6th February at 1.30pm &
7.30pm
Certificate: tbc
Duration: 83 minutes
Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to
be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their familes in
an age of depression, war and austerity, but they did so without
the consumer durables that we now consider essential.
With humour frequently in it's sights, Housewives Choice is a
programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the
lives of British housewives from the 1920s to the 1950s.
The programme includes documentariers, cinemagazines,
propaganda films and adverts. It also features films by two women
who helped to shape the British documentary movement of the 1930s
and 1940s- Ruby Grierson (1904-1940) and Kay Mander (1915)
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
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