Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One - Enlightenment and utility: Informational film as useful cinema Chapter Two - ‘We are a little land’: Informational film and small-nation cinema Chapter Three - Mapping Messiness: The informational film archive & Actor-Network Theory Chapter Four - ‘The film world’s cooperative store’: Institutions and films of the 1930s and 1940s Chapter Five - ‘A film-progressive nation’: The Social Denmark series and the British documentary movement Chapter Six - ‘Somethin’ about Scandinavia’: Danish shorts on the post-war international scene Chapter Seven - ‘Citizens of the Future’: Informational film and the welfare state Chapter Eight - ‘A free hand’: The art film versus the art of documentary Chapter Nine - Symphony of a short film: A City Called Copenhagen Conclusion References