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A Saturday morning for a family in a London suburb. An English language teaching aid for the Linguaphone Institute, presumably distributed abroad and for screenings in schools and in English as a Second Language classes.

The World's First Three Dimensional Advertising Film In Colour for Capstan cigarettes.

Rides, boxing booths, and a dog-faced monkey keep on moving as the travelling fair hits Mitcham and Stratford-upon-Avon, with a look in at Blackpool.

The new bus works at Aldenham, with complete process of overhaul system of RT buses. This includes separating the bus body from the chassis, paint and wood work, and brake testing, etc.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

The construction of a hydro electric scheme in the Scottish Highlands.

Stereoscopic sports demonstration film, featuring snooker star Joe Davis and cricket legend Denis Compton.

Children's film shot in East Africa. Toto discovers that the elephants in the game park are being shot by ivory poachers.

Fletcher Gilchrist offers £100 to anyone who will break into a house. Journalist Mike Harvey accepts the bet but he and another man are caught when the latter murders the owner of the house. Harvey escapes custody, determined to seek revenge on Gilchrist.

A golfer who finds a magical ring dreams that he falls in love with a lady trapped in a ruined house.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at post war social, political and religious conditions in Japan.

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Demonstrating the work of the British police force, based on actual incidents from the files of Brighton Borough Police, and illustrated through a case of housebreaking.

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

The Royal Kiltie Juniors perform a variety show, and are interviewed by Peter Sinclair, while McDonald Hobley speaks to their parents.

9 minute-long short film by Enrico Cocozza from 1956.

A short animation based on the Edward Lear poem

Scenes of the lochs and mountains of the Highlands.

People will always need transport and transport will always need people. Addressed particularly to boys of school-leaving age and to young men completing their period of military service, this film shows some of the wide variety of careers which British Transport has to offer, whether in railways or in the docks, on the orads or on Britain's inland waterways. The good transport worker combines individual initiative with teamwork, and the work of the transport team is vital to the nation.

A reconstruction of the building of the Forth railway bridge using contemporary footage and stills.

A look at London's Soho in the mid-1950s.

Everyone knows that petroleum comes out of the earth, but the question is how did it get there, and what is it made of? The answer to these questions are given simply and accurately in this animated programme.

Detailing the careful construction of the Gloster stretcher/ladder, used for the safe transportation of patients.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

David Gladwell (Requiem for a Village) was just 20 years old when he made A summer Discord, an imaginative amateur, silent short film set in the countryside which tells the story of a little girl who is reprimanded by her mother. Of particular note is the film’s dark nightmare sequence which is shot in colour (unlike the rest of the film) and which anticipates Gladwell’s later, highly poetical films.

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways transport it from station to station, seeking its true abode. Finally, one of its owners comes to the nightmare tribunal where those who maltreat their luggage are dealt with. Did it happen? Was it a dream? Be warned. See this film. Avoid making yours 'a desperate case'.

A British documentary that covers the atomic energy developments made in Great Britain since the end of World War II, with a focus towards advancing progress towards space flight.

American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.

c. 1957-60 After a breakup, DB is haunted by memories, until fate reunites him with his partner in a quietly groundbreaking embrace, set to “Unchained Melody”.

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.

A river symphony and an early example of stereoscopic film made about the River Thames.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

The film opens with general views and shows building works and Sherpas loading up. Scenes of threshing and a campsite, with Sherpas and huts. A settlement is then shown, including people weaving. Scenes of walking in towards the mountains and climbing in the foothills. More threshing scenes and the film ends with shots of the mountains and village.

Daniel Farson looks at mixed marriages as part of his People in Trouble programme.

Bristol's historical buildings, streets, docks, churches, bomb ruins, and industries, her great traditions and associations with famous citizens.

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?

A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus services and the Calais to Dover cross-channel ferry: these are the subjects of this early BTF production covering a world of transport co-ordination now largely vanished.

Skittles enthusiasts gather at the Parc and Dare Unionist Club, in the Rhonda Valley, Glamorgan, for a local ‘needle match’. There are lots of flat caps and pipes!

An "Abstract (psychedelic) animation with beeping SFXs. Technicolor flowers, drawings in silhouette and zany interpretations of the BP shield logo." - BP Video Library

This short unedited film largely documents travel, tourist attractions some of the people encountered during Sir Clarmont Skrine’s time in the region. Highlights within the footage are the spectacular mountainous scenery to be found in Iran, Tomb of Cyrus, Persepolis, the shrine of Imam Reza, Imam Square, Chehel Sotoun, Shah Mosque, Tehran Bazaar, Ctesiphon, the Tomb of Darius and the Blue Mosque.

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

British TV Movie Comedy..

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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