Editing Dylan Thomas (section)

=== Making films 1941–1948 ===
From September 1941 Thomas worked for the Strand Film Company in London.  Strand produced films for the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]] and Thomas produced film scripts for six such films in 1942: ''This is Colour'' (on aniline dye processing), ''[[New Towns for Old]]'', ''Balloon Site 568'' (a recruitment film), ''CEMA'' (on arts organisation), ''Young Farmers'' and ''Battle for Freedom''. He also scripted and produced ''Wales – Green Mountain, Black Mountain'', a British Council commission and a bi-lingual production.<ref>{{cite book | last =Davies|first =Walford|author-link =|date = 2014| title = Dylan Thomas|series = Writers of Wales| location = Cardiff| publisher = University of Wales Press |pages=95–6}}</ref> ''These Are The Men'' (1943) was a more ambitious piece in which Thomas's verse accompanies [[Leni Riefenstahl]]'s footage of an early [[Nuremberg Rally]].{{refn|According to {{harvp|Ferris|1989|p=190}}, the footage was taken from Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film [[Triumph of the Will|Triumph des Willens]].|group="nb"}} ''Conquest of a Germ'' (1944) explored the use of early antibiotics in the fight against [[pneumonia]] and [[tuberculosis]]. ''Our Country'' (1945) was a romantic tour of Britain set to Thomas's poetry.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Andrew|last1=Lycett| title=The reluctant propagandist|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2286844,00.html|work=The Guardian |date=21 June 2008|access-date=24 June 2008| location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia of British Film |year=2005 |first1=Brian |last1=McFarlane |publisher=Methuen |page=207| isbn=978-0-413-77526-9}}</ref>

Thomas continued to work in the film industry after the war, working on feature film scripts which included: ''[[No Room at the Inn]]'' (1948), ''[[The Three Weird Sisters]]'' (1948), ''[[The Doctor and the Devils]]'' (1944 - not produced until 1985) and ''[[Rebecca's Daughters]]'' (1948 – not produced until 1992). His screenplay for ''[[The Beach of Falesá]]'', not produced as a film, received a BBC Radio 3 production in May 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3, Dylan Thomas: The Beach of Falesa |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042bh3t |website=BBC}}</ref> Altogether in his work in the film industry Thomas produced 28 film scripts (not all of which reached production) as well as acting as producer and director in some cases. When recession overtook the film industry in the late 1940s he lost his most reliable source of income. The experience he gained in his film work was a significant factor, according to Walford Davies, in the maturation of [[Under Milk Wood]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Davies|first =Walford|author-link =|date = 2014| title = Dylan Thomas|series = Writers of Wales| location = Cardiff| publisher = University of Wales Press |pages=95–7}}</ref>