and they each made a series of socially challenging short documentaries on a variety of subjects. Another acclaimed title was Reisz's featurette, We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959).

These films, made in the tradition of British documentaries in the 1930s by such men as John Grierson, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema which emerged in the 1960s with Anderson's own film This Sporting Life,