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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.
Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Beside this there is much dancing, much stripping and a lot of alcohol.
Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.
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.
A look at the impact of the bicycle and the increasing interest in cycle racing.
The Gang engage Marvo the Magician for Peewee's birthday party, but unfortunately all his magic misfires, and he loses Stodger in his special cabinet. Still searching for Stodger, Marvo makes himself disappear.
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
The boom of the clothing industry brought great work for female machinists. This film presents how new recruits were hired and then trained to use the sewing machine in the workshop, or in one example, how not to manage recruits.
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 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.
A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.
A look at stamps in Britain from their design to their issue.
A BAFTA award nominated promotional film for Mullards's wide range of products in the field of electronics.
A look into the natural world of the butterfly and the reasons for the apparent shortage of them.
Tells the short history of the Transport Ferry Service and shows how a large piece of equipment is delivered in time for an exhibition in Milan.
A visit to the Isle of Man to discover why it wants greater independence.
New law targets discrimination in housing and employment.
The history of British fashion from the late-1890s to 1960. Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."
A short film about the Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society which introduces important members and explains the ins and outs of their hobby.
A vibrant and colourful film documenting activities of an expedition travelling across East Nepal. Interspersed with shots of the mountainous Nepalese landscape, its native peoples and practices are recorded in exquisite detail. The film also shows scientists at work in the field, collecting and analysing various samples and specimens.
A community of sculptors (and a potter) face crisis as their London NW1 studios are threatened with demolition.
Conjuring up demons in Birmingham.
Among the Brighton gangs, the Mods and Rockers, a teenager is victimised by a member of his own group, who then steals his girlfriend. He can take no more, and knives his rival in a fight. But his troubles are just beginning. His girlfriend is not coming back. The police are after him, as are the other members of the gang. Everywhere he is a fugitive. He suffers a breakdown, and fantasises that the doctors in the hospital are killing his injured rival, and that he will be blamed. He steals a bottle of serum that a doctor had used for an injection, hoping to convince his former friends that he is innocent, but it is just an empty bottle which will convince no-one. He finds himself cornered in a dark lane where there is no way out.
As travelogues go this one doesn't quite cut it – good job Lanry household bleach can!
The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits - the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their institutions and brought them their characteristic means of gaining a livelihood. Today, as spirits, they continue to maintain the established institutions and the skills with which people wrest a living from their environment. The water people, by contrast, have never lived with men: they are the creators and owners of the rivers and creeks, controlling the state of the waters and the abundance of fish. The little village of Soku, hidden in the heart of the eastern Delta, has a group of heroes headed by Fenibaso, and its creeks and rivers are controlled by the water-spirit Duminea. This film shows some highlights of the annual ritual for Duminea. As in most Kalabari festivals, spirit possession features prominently in the proceedings.
A look to the future with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Army which was formed in 1715.
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.
Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".
Lovely Jean Spaul decides to become an artist and as her model she engages beautiful Pamela Green; anything can happen with these two together.
Clothes are just such a bother when one needs to get some cleaning done.
A pioneering documentary in 1969, looking at the situation of gay men in the UK two years after the 1967 Reform Act, and revealing how attitudes have changed. It includes unique interviews with the Bill's initiator, Leo Abse; Peter Manolt, the Editor of the bi-sexual/gay magazine 'Jeremy'; social workers who regard 'gayness' as something to be 'cured'; the only gay man found willing to appear on camera at that time, and members of the public on the streets of London and Leeds.
A look at what is being done to make cars and roads safer and to prevent accidents on the roads of Britain.
Part of the Look at Life Rank series reels. A look at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, the world’s most famous beach. But overlooking it are the shacks of the world’s poorest people.
A portrait of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, the pioneers of photography.
The effect on the lungs of living in a polluted atmosphere is briefly shown on pathological specimens. Two patients are seen, one of whom had to change his job on account of reduced respiratory capacity due to bronchitis. This film uses very evocative footage of polluted city centres and inner city housing, showing widespread burning of fossil fuels in industry and the home, as well as a hospital. The result is smutty deposits over everything. Comparisons are made between Social Class 1, who can afford to live in the clean suburbs and Social Class 5, who fall victim to respiratory disease through constant exposure to pollution.
BBC documentary on the long and flamboyant career of French filmmaker Abel Gance.
Amateur film about a wet weekend in Carnoustie for members of the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers, with a poetic accompaniment.
Documentary from British Transport Films
A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.
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.
The musical motorcycles hit Paris to a Cuban vibe.
A look at the changing social scene within British pubs of the late 1960s.
A BAFTA award nominated scientific documentary on the properties and uses of carbon.
animals and their relationship to alcohol
A focus on the issue of dumped cars, how the problem is being addressed and a look at the dumping of other unwanted articles.
A look at a typical day in a policeman's life, which uncovers more than expected from the role.
The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St., Durham, Sunderland, Kirkcaldy; hovercraft - Isle of Wight service; Cartic car-carrying wagon; testing of wagon bodies - Derby laboratories; Southern House; Glasgow suburban services; Guildford signal box; Freightliners, company trains; hostesses - Seaspeed and at Gatwick Airport station.
A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.
The Pink Auto, screened using two projectors, is one of the very first examples of expanded cinema. Jeff Keen walks as a zombie and carry his dead bride through brown English fields.
Join distracted onlookers at a protest “be-in” at Camden’s Roundhouse –alongside portraits of Lenin and a giant inflatable phallus.
Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.
Follows a hiker through Skye, visiting Dunvegan Castle and climbing the Cuillins.