Margaret Thomson (10 June 1910 – 30 December 2005)[1] was an Australian-born documentary filmmaker who divided her forty-year career between New Zealand and England.
[3] Partly due to the onset of World War II, which opened opportunities for women while men were at war, she worked on a large number of RFU film projects, many aimed at educating people about dealing with wartime conditions.
[4] She stayed at RFU for six years, developing a reputation as an outstanding director who conveyed complicated information clearly and without talking down to her audiences.
[1][2][3] In 1947, she was offered a position as a director for New Zealand's National Film Unit (NFU), and she returned to the country where she had been raised.
[2] Crown closed a year later, but she continued making films in England for another two decades as a freelance filmmaker and producer, mostly of documentary shorts.