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Documentary about the picturesque Thames-side village of Bray, where Hammer's famous studio was situated in the 50s and 60s.

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea.

Juvenile magazine. Hints on table tennis, St. John Ambulance cadets in camp, a doll collection etc.

Dufaycolor film of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A Scots boy describes in a letter his home, his school, local industries and Burn's cottage and Prestwick Airport.

Travelogue filmed on a cruise around Scotland's Northern Isles and Hebrides.

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and his family at a time when the drift from the northern isles of the Orkneys was of concern to some Orcadians.

This film is shown to all recruits to London Transport's railway departments and teaches common-sense practices to be followed when working on London Transport electrifed track, or in depots. London Transport's 'four-rail' permanent way is explained in detail, and it is shown that both negative and positive current rails are dangerous. Correct behaviour when working or walking on or near the track is shown, and examples are given of methods of handling and disposing of tools.

The pleasures of sailing off the Isle of Wight are described by Uffa Fox, while Ralph Wightman tells of the peaceful life of its farms and villages.

Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.

Amateur film of scenes in South Africa. Opens on a house (residency), then landscape views from a train, city buildings and streets (possibly Durban), agricultural workers with oxen ploughing a field, group riding on a donkey cart, sunset, views of the Union Buildings at Pretoria, industrial scenes, desert landscapes, coastal scenes, ends on birds flying over the sea.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing that of sound.

A trip around England meeting various oddities and obscurities including a hair raising Taxi drive around 1950s central London.

Highlights of Prince Philip's visit to Antarctica, Falkland Island Dependencies, the Falkland Islands themselves, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension Island.

Painter Mr Stan Bult records the face make-up of clowns on eggshells, in order to ensure every clown is distinct: to safeguard the unwritten law that clowns do not copy the make-up of another clown.

Come over the sea to Skye in 1959, with its majestic mist-covered mountains, lush valleys and snug white-washed croft houses, in this award winning amateur film from Iain Dunnachie. See bustling Portree’s colourful 1950s cars, buses and fashions, and feel for the hardworking crofter in his backbreaking daily routine with peat to cut, haystacks to build, cows and toddlers to care for. Poetry and landscape combine in this moving and memorable film showing a lost way of life.

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

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

Based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Verses of the "Broken-hearted Milkman" sung by James Watson, Ronald Johnson and Owen Swindale. The song "When the Moonlit Wave" by Christina Stephenson and Elizabeth Johnson. Raymond Townsend and Sylvia Budd speak the various Cockney characters.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Instructs gangers and lengthmen how the Hallade Track recorder makes a continous record of the movements of a train during a journey and so shows up the good and bad places in the track.

This film tells the story of a young man (Donald) torn between his "mind", "body" and "soul". Donald, a student doctor, receives news of his mother's death and leaves his studies to rescue his fiancee, Mary, who has become injured while hillwalking. He knocks himself unconscious, meanwhile the film acts out his moral dilemmas, but there is a happy ending.

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

Amateur film from 1955 showing the people, landscapes and architecture of numerous islands in the Caribbean by Everild Helweg-Larsen, F.R.G.S.

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Centre to develop a lubricant to resist radiation.

A busy Saturday in Kidderminster: shoppers crowd the pavements, a policeman directs traffic. Suddenly the alert is sounded and the full force of the Cold War descends.

Little film showing a few tips on how to present food graciously. The famous husband and wife cooking team, Fanny and John Cradock, are showing some of the ways to serve savouries. The presentation of the food is as important as the food itself.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Directed by Jack Howells.

The newest trend of glueing colorful hairpieces onto your head to match your dress. You are in the mood to wear something red, you can easily add a red strand of hair to match it.

In this examination of the present state of unemployment in Britain, Aidan Crawley makes a tour which begins in Cornwall and ends in Dundee. On the way he visits South Wales, Merseyside, and East Lancashire and talks to economists, union leaders, and industrialists as well as men and women who are unemployed.

"From the top of a bus London is spread out for all to see"... A single subject Cinegazette, covering London's landmarks, areas, activities and personalities.

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary that illustrates the need for and uses of lubrication across engineering.

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

The transport services made it possible for millions of people to participate in Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, and this film reveals a little known aspect of their work on that day. As a result of collaboration between London Transport, British Railways and the L.C.C., 30,000 schoolchildren from London and the Home Counties were brought to the Victoria Embankment to witness the passing of the Queen's Procession on its way to the Abbey.

This unusual amateur documentary outlines the work of Catholic priests in the Brentwood and Romford area. It's laden with interesting period details, such as the travelling mission to further-flung villages, enabling isolated Catholics without motorcars to celebrate Mass. The film's tone, though pious, ranges from gentle humour (priest struggles with motorbike) to deadly earnest (sacraments administered to the sick and dying).

The Talyllyn Railway was opened in 1866 to transport slate from Bryneglwys Quarry in the Gwernol Valley to Abergynolgwyn and thence to Towyn. It was also licensed to carry passengers but it didn’t reach its centenary, closing in 1950. Here P B Whitehouse, friend of disused railways, celebrates the line’s successful continuance – from 1951 - under the auspices of the world’s first railway preservation society of which he was a founder member.

A look at modern technology and how it is used to help make life harder for lawbreakers.

Amateur footage of activities and events at Raigmore Hospital near Inverness in the immediate post-war years, including shots of staff and patients, and a visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to present medals.

How "Milady Chocolates" are made at Birrell's factory, Glasgow.

Many English country houses are now open to the public at various times. This film shows a few which lie near London. South of the Thames, there are Polesden Lacey, Knole of the Sackvilles, and Penshurst Place. Parts of St. John's Jerusalem, near Dartford, date back to the Crusades. North of the Thames, beyond High Wycombe, is West Wycombe Park, and to the east, in Hertfordshire, Hatfield House is only a few minutes from the Great North Road.

A look at how Scotland's water is being used to bring power to the Highlands.

Dyke Richens and his partner design and make lifelike masks and animal costumes for the theatre.

British Railways in the 1930's overview of the role of an Engineer on steam locomotives

Explains how to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

Mrs Cunliffe wins the North West Area Festival Fare cookery finals. Manchester

Campaign film asking the public not to misuse or throw away the glass bottles left by their milkman, but to rinse them and put them back out for collection. Of the 320,000,000 in circulation a week, a costly 6,400,000 go missing.