[4] She then spent several years working in traditionally "female" departments such as publicity, budget and production before moving into continuity.

One of her best known films is Homes for the People (1945) which used the technique of allowing working class women to describe their living conditions, one of them vividly slating the design of her suburban house and summing up: "I call it a muck-up".

In the 1950s, Mander and her husband, fellow filmmaker Rod Neilson Baxter, returned from Indonesia where they had helped set up a film unit.

She spent most of the rest of her career working in continuity on feature films, including From Russia with Love, The Heroes of Telemark and Fahrenheit 451.

During the 1930s, Mander joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and attended Left Book Club meetings.

[2][5] She had a column in the ACT journal, The Cine-Technician, until the 1950s, where she wrote union issues such as the need for equal pay and post-war job security.