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Members of the Netherlands Dance Theatre perform the ballet ‘The Anatomy Lesson’, which was inspired by Rembrandt’s famous painting.

A two-part BAFTA-winning documentary examining the Camphill movement’s work helping people with learning disabilities, first focusing on its school outside Aberdeen, then on Botton Village, in North Yorkshire, a community for adults with special needs.

Two youth groups with one aim in common. They profess hate for the older generation and they're out to shock and disgust by any means.

Follows the life of Hull folk group The Watersons, which is made up of brothers and sisters Michael Waterson, Norma Waterson, Elaine Waterson (more commonly known as Lal Waterson), and their cousin John Harrison, as they spend a large amount of their time on the road in their van travelling between one folk club and the next.

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

A charity appeal film for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (then known as the Royal National Institute for the Blind) with the actor Leslie Phillips.

Replacing a railway bridge over a main road in 15 1/2 hours between the last train on Saturday night and the first on Sunday morning, at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, so as not to disturb the scheduled train services.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police.

A look at the progress of the European Common Market during a time in which member countries have started to remove trade barriers.

Jeff Keen thought that some of his previous films had been dominated by long-shots. In this film he grapples with the language of cinema, not as a means to inspire audience identification, but rather to make up for an imbalance.

A young woman stripping in a hay loft.

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.

David Gladwell's ground-breaking documentary about changes in a regional council's approach to caring for children with disabilities.

Biographical short about the American Pop Artist by James Scott

The Ghost of Monk's Island Part Four Fight for Survival

Charlie's carefree bachelor's life in his rented bedsit is shattered when his landlady discovers evidence that he had female company overnight.

Pelican Motorist

Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.

A focus on sleep and the best methods to get it. Also with a look at beds, mattresses and how they have changed over time.

A look at traffic controls in West Germany and their autobahns and how Britain can learn as they build miles of new motorway including the new Hammersmith Flyover.

When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In this case, it's a particularly giant-sized transport problem. But before he's convinced that the railways can help him solve it, there is an atmosphere of battle in the room, and some interesting and unexpected facts are hurled about in the course of the argument. Made to promote the use of railways to transport raw materials and finished products.

A BAFTA award nominated film made by Shell Films explaining the principles of the motor car engine.

Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a short sequence of minimalist gesture.

A sports documentary about association football that follows a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion football club.

A look at the production of the HIllman Imp car in Linwood, Scotland.

Impressions of a typical weekend in Blackburn in the early 1960s.

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young anti-war demonstrator contemplating her pregnancy and recalling her childhood as she prepares to give birth.

Made for the NSPCC by the noted film director John Krish, They Took Us To The Sea follows a group of children taken by Inspectors of the NSPCC on an outing from Birmingham to Weston-Super Mare.

The captivating story of Britain's pilotage services to shipping.

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms can come together in various ways. My morphology teacher was also a dancer and he is the one in black moving with the white me in the cube. The film also includes photos I took, a number with multiple exposures, and drawings I did from the photos and from the work of Eadweard Muybridge, whose studies in motion inspired me." - Penny Slinger

A look at the day-to-day running of the historic Tower of London and coping with up to 16,000 visitors each day. A stunning display of the Crown Jewels.

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

A trip to Eel Pie Island in the River Thames to look at the youth club there and how it is inspiring youngsters.

Approximately 40,000 people use the Waterloo & City Underground line every day. For years they had walked to and from the platforms at the Bank by a steep passage known as the 'Drain'. But know, they can ride up and down on the first moving pavements in Europe - the Travolators. This film shows the construction of the Travolators which was achieved without disrupting normal traffic.

The tram system of Glasgow and the last weekend of the service.

Looking at the life of a student nurse in London.

Members of a school expedition in Tunisia become accidentally involved in industrial espionage.

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's "Perpetuum Mobile", the camera makes the journey at a speed of about 960 mph! Inside the train, passengers eat and drink, sleep or read, oblivious of the speed at which they travel.

Zippy public information animation on how to keep up with the Joneses - by getting a rebate on rates.

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay; Merry-go-round coal trains; permanent way lining and tamping machine; off loading cable troughing; strengthening the Royal Albert Bridge; Old Course Hotel, St Andrew's; car bodies by train - factory to assembly line; Beckenham train control; speed up of West of England expresses.

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhibit of 1973. I blow on and kiss a mirror, I apply lipstick, I transform into a white statue and paint blood red lips… then I become a mask in a distorted mirror, a face with many lips…In the last sequence I circle my face with a light and transform into the mask." - Penny Slinger

A look at the impact of the bicycle and the increasing interest in cycle racing.

A revolution is taking place down on the farm - the machines are taking over, so that the modern farmer can operate his farm almost single-handed.

A look at jobs requiring a head for heights.

Fishing, farming and life in the great outdoors in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

A look at the pastime of angling in Britain

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten, and the performers include Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone) and Simon Preston (organ and chamber organ). Also featured are the BBC Chorus and Choral Society, Boys from Emanuel School, London Philharmonic Choir, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

A small boy inherits a steam road roller. A film fantasy by Edward McConnell.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

A look at the world of auctions and auctioneers, with a glimpse at the various items sold and the different types of people drawn to the sale rooms.

About the development scheme for a residential area in the City. Barbican, which will be largely completed by 1973, will provide about 7,000 people with not only flats and houses but shops, schools and a wide range of cultural and other amenities.

Story of four sufferers from polio.

animals and their relationship to alcohol

Story of a summer day on the oldest narrow-gauge passenger railway in the world. Richard Baker narrates as the locomotives of the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales are prepared for the summer tourist traffic. Now retired, Driver Bill Hoole of the crack East Coast expresses can be seen preparing Prince for the sedate and leisurely journey to Porthmadog.

An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

Animated short. A man runs and runs.

A look at stamps in Britain from their design to their issue.

A look into the natural world of the butterfly and the reasons for the apparent shortage of them.