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A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

A police inspector instructs his men on how to behave by explaining the development of two criminal cases.

British TV Movie Comedy..

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952.

A lyrical evocation of times past and a reflection on the inevitable passing of time through the recollections of an old fisherman.

François Truffaut's father Roland Truffaut was passionate about mountains, but also cinema. He filmed his hikes, edited the footage and sometimes showed them at the French Alpine Club of which he is a very active member.

A documentary on Hemel Hempstead, the most advanced of the new towns.

A university professor is horrified to discover that he snores terribly, tormenting his wife every night. Secretly, he decides to undergo a not entirely risk-free operation and deceives his wife into believing he's going on a trip to Capri. An admirer seizes the opportunity to convince her that her husband is cheating on her. Furious, she sets off for Capri, only to find the admirer there, who tries to seduce her. Meanwhile, complications arise during the operation.

A German Film award winning short documentary.

Made over two years with the co-operation of the Scottish Ski Club and Dundee Ski Club it shows both learners and experts skiing on the slopes of Ben Lawers.

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.

A silent short film by Kurt Kren.

Jacinto is in love with Natalia, but she wishes for a daring hero and he is not that kind of man at all. Then by accident he is mistakenly believed to be just that. Now he will try to live up to her expectations, finding it quite stressful.

A day in the life of the last line fisherman in Aberdeenshire, Norman Grant of Collieston, with a voiceover giving details of his work.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary paying tribute to the World Health Organisation on it's tenth anniversary in 1958.

The story of the development of oil tankers during the last hundred years, produced with the co-operation of the British Tanker Shipping Organisation of the British Petroleum Company

In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photographed from low-flying aircraft against an evocative soundtrack, revealing the features of their ancient capitals, historical heritage and remarkable landscapes in a new dimension.

Suzanne Beulemans's fiancé, Séraphin Meulenmeester, once tells her that he has... a mistress and a... son! The bad news falls rather well though given that Suzanne has developed a fondness for Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who has come to Brussels to study the brewing methods of her father. She decides to break up amicably but Séraphin does not dare admit it to his father, who becomes angry with the Beulemanses. Suzanne's uncle, a vicar, tries to settle the whole thing but the coronation of King Albert I gives rise to renewed resentment. Suzanne finally finds the way to solve the problem: she takes Meulenmeester apart, reminds him of his own misconduct when he was a young man, asks him to forgive Séraphin while her own father accepts Albert as his son-in-law.

A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead.

London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film produced by the BBC Film Unit. The camera was manually undercranked to produce a 'fast-motion' film-- the journey lasted only four minutes instead of the actual time the trip took, around an hour.

Features: Mario Del Monaco Leyla Gencer Ettore Bastianini Fedora Barbieri Laura Londi Plinio Clabassi Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano dell RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

"Heroism after Hours" (German: "Heldentum nach Ladenschluß") is a 1955 West German anthology comedy film. It is in four parts each portraying a different tale of German soldiers attempting to get home at the end of the Second World War.

Damian Bacchus, a widower, is the father of his lovely daughters Trautchen, Billa, and Grietchen. The four of them run a small inn. But that can’t be all. Damian buys the much larger restaurant Rheinschlösschen. Elvira Claer, the owner of the Grand Hotel and once in love with Damian—who then chose someone else—wants to snatch the Rheinschlösschen away from him out of revenge...

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.

Visual illustration of D'Annunzio's poem of the same name read by Giorgio Albertazzi.

The life of the inhabitants in the snow-covered Black Forest region.

Nights and days, thoughts and songs, and the places loved in youth are recalled by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A killer stalks chorus girls.

Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts, this Monitor item (Ken Russell's third for the pioneering BBC arts strand) offers a whistle-stop tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways. The instrument's sudden popularity came about as a by-product of the skiffle revival, which led a wide range of people to form bands whose instrumentation was generally as cheap and cheerful as possible. Washboards and comb-and-paper combinations were common, and the only conventional musical instrument was often the humble acoustic guitar.

Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

An attempt to psychologically fathom the soul of the masses.

Animated film produced by les Films Jean Image, Paris, France, 1957

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

A Spanish girl is sent to a Swiss school where she befriends an American girl. After coming back home and getting married she invites her to pay them a visit. Problems will ensue.

The story takes place in the early 1950s in the small village of Oberschönau in the Bavarian Alps. The teacher's daughter Maria and the young farmer Mathias want to get married soon. But a serious blow of fate puts a stop to the couple's plans: the hunting assistant Franz has been stabbed to death by a poacher, and the police find Mathias' knife at the crime scene. To avoid being arrested, the accused flees abroad. That's why most of the villagers believe that Mathias is the murderer. But Maria firmly believes in his innocence.

A woman between two men. Horror melodrama.

Masked hero on horseback. One in a series.

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

Lily Ferronais can't stand her husband who, out of weakness, has let himself be led down the wrong road. She flees with her little Jeannette, whom she makes believe in the death of her father. Hired by the restaurateur Jean Garaud, the latter falls in love with her, to the chagrin of his mistress Hélène.