# WWII BRITISH BUILDING TRADES SCHOOLBOY APPRENTICESHIP FILM 89764

Made in 1944, NEW BUILDERS is a Ministry of Information Film made by Paul Rotha Productions 1944, under the direction of Kay Mander, for the Building Apprenticeship and Training Council. The film was made during WWII to encourage schoolboys to take up apprenticeships in building trades including masonry, carpentry, electrician, machinist, and more. These "new builders" would be vital in the renovation of war-damaged housing and buildings. The film begins showing bomb damage to London. It then shows the front covers of many publications relating to the need for building houses; such as Post-War Building by Alfred C Bosson and A Hindren, and New Towns by A Trystan Edwards. It then shows the London County Council School of Building. Many new students arrive and look at the board telling them of the different subject classes and grades. A group go into the brickwork shop where a trainee is making a brick wall, whilst one of the trainees explains what is involved. Then on to the plastering shop where a trainee is making some ornamental plaster work and others are plastering onto rough walls. A trainee gives a voiceover again explaining the procedure of applying several coats. Then the film moves on to the workshops for masonry, carpentry and joinery. In the plumbing shop a trainee is shaping a lead fitting. The narrator explains that having had a go with each of the trades it is necessary to choose one. Then there is a class for building construction where more basic building…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/89764-new-builders)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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