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Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.

A film of a royal visit to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1906. Comprises footage re-edited from the earlier silent film "Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary Celebrations", with a new soundtrack and commentary.

Crime reporter Gilbert Harding recites the story of a crime to a newspaper editor

Illustrates, through the medium of ballet, the manufacturing processes for woollen fabrics. A wool worker visits a fair and, looking into a slot machine, sees clock-work puppets come to life. He and the puppets, now ballet dancers, interpret the various stages in wool production in terms of ballet.

Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.

A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears

A brief review of the 1955 Farnborough Air Show.

A story of three young artists who believe artists only reach fame when they die and so come up with a strange plan.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their enormous productive capacity, their intellect and diligence, help themselves to a better future? To do this, borders must be cut, tariffs disappear and common sales markets created. The first milestones on the way to achieving this great goal are set: Marshall Plan, Schuman Plan, European Payments Union, North Atlantic Defense Organization and Council of Europe.

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain Cook. As the camera moves across outstanding monuments of their work and relics of their achievements from Syon House to Greenwich, members of the Old Vic Company speak appropriate passages from the literature of the mid-eighteenth century. The musical score was specially composed by the late Sir Arnold Bax.

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. The situation is retrieved when Mr Mensah takes part in a government scheme that provides locals with free building materials for their houses

Desmond Water Ellis demonstrates stereoscopy.

An attempted evocation of the tradition of British printing, in a series of dramatised impressions: the discovery of a new method of printing in France and its development in England. The beauty of language is illustrated by excerpts from the works of Shakespeare and Dickens.

The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.

Novel ideas for domestic light with Gilbert Charles Harding.

Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increase when Janet is less than forthcoming about a visit she paid to a former beau. Happily, her loyal husband (Ronald Howard) swears by her innocence and quickly leaps into motion to find the real killer.

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

The design of London Transport's trains and vehicles, buildings, equipment and furniture reveals a style which is characteristic of the whole undertaking, a style which this film shows dates from 1916 when Frank Pick commissioned a new type-face for use in all London Transport's public notices. Since then, and not least in its printing and posters. London Transport has sought to maintain a high standard of good looks throughout the wide field in which it operates.

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the Festival.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.

Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.

Daily life and activity at London Airport, including the organisation behind the scenes.

A world-weary sculptor meets a young ballerina and finds she has inspired a fresh outlook on life in him. He starts a life-sized sculpture of her but this enrages her jealous lover.

In 1909 Cornwall, the affair between a disfigured miller's wife and his estranged cousin leads to a tragic case of mistaken identity.

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage and this film gives a selection of scenes from a typical day: the breakfast mail, a boy with a problem, a girl with a worry, a visit from two widowers, a birthday tea party. An official insight into a forgotten aspect of railway operation.

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

An absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.

As London slowly comes to life, the early morning peace is shattered by a dramatic police chase.

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

The story of a ship's arrival, unloading and departure from the Port of London in 1951, and all the life of the docklands and the river. Made for the Festival of Britain.

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.

Real-life palm reader Josef Ranald helps people two determine their futures. Some sources claim this British film was never released, or even finished, until 1956 when American Ron Ormond acquired it and added a brief sequence about a girl hitchhiker and a psycho motorist, releasing it finally as The Eternal Question.

Take a history tour on the River Thames. Lots of famous footage: Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Port of London, Cleopatra's Needle and much more!

From The World of Life film series. A documentary narrated by Robert Beatty, of a working day of Laurie Smith - the Head Keeper of London Zoo.

A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.

Fabergé animals in a Russian influenced Easter tale.

A round-up of some of London journalism's most outstanding cartoonists and their work.

Film of the expedition.

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.

A look at the motor coach, with a view from the back of a coach during a tour of Italy.

Amateur colour footage showing Israel and Jordan in 1953. The film opens in Jerusalem, showing the cityscape, walls, people and street scenes. Scenes in Jordan include landscapes, street scenes, crowds and dignitaries at a religious procession, mountain and valley views, architecture and ruined buildings, an encampment and ends with views of Petra.

Santa Claus threatens to go on strike, as a result of people posting mail too late!

Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a burglar Squishy Taylor that tried to blow up his safe.

Industrial film demonstrating methods of material handling using electrically-driven equipment. Framed in a fictional scenario of businessmen discussing industrial modernisation.

An old man has to go to hospital for an operation, but won't leave his dog. Friends and neighbours rally round to help.

Mischievous Irish boy's encounter with a leprechaun.

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.