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Black and white 16mm film sequences of Birmingham.

Tap dancing short with the fabulous dancing duo Koba and Kalee.

A murderer is shocked to death by his victim’s ghost.

The Maestro is conducting Rossini's William Tell overture, but suddenly the music stops dead and he is unable to start again…

The construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland.

After a nun moves to Rome, she is seduced by a mysterious young man with a seemingly dark past.

A look at the housing, amenities and industry of the Scottish new town of Livingston.

Violent riots and strikes paralyse Paris and rest of France.

New bridge under construction will replace old transporter bridge.

Carpet manufacturing in Glasgow.

A charming travelogue of coach tours available throughout the UK and on the continent in the 50s/60s.

This film draws attention to the new pattern that is emerging as the modernisation scheme progresses. It refers now and again to work shown in previous editions, and compares it with today's scene. This includes freight transport, marshalling yards, shipping and passenger services.

A man, troubled and trapped in a deserted station, misses the only train...

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.

Gorgeous colour film of Burma / Myanmar from 1960 showing major cities, towns and landmarks of the country. Places shown include Rangoon (now Yangon) - the port (shipping) and Shwe Dagon Pagoda (architecture, monks and worshippers). Pagan (now Bagan) – the ancient pagodas, including the Ananda. The former royal city of Mandalay and its palace. Amarapura - local industry including silk weaving and Bhamo – daily life, views, architecture.

Educational film on the problem of litter.

Billiards presided over by a parrot called Lucy. Just a typical night out in Barnsley!

Maria comes from abroad to visit an English family. On the way to the Cinema Club she gets lost and misses the film. Next day the children find the cinema unlocked. They take her over it and try out the apparatus. Then they surprise a thief and give chase, finally trapping him with the spotlight so that the police can catch him.

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

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

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

Documentary following the men from a village community on the Isle of Lewis as they head out to a remote island to hunt guga, in a perilous ritual which has been carried out for generations.

Performance documentation of an event staged by British artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills – but activated, and even filmed, by a participatory audience – at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on 11 May 1965

A look at the dedicated research carried out behind the scenes of medicine and the onward march of surgery.

A look at modern bridge building in Britain.

A look into the ceaseless battle between land and sea.

Drive safe public information film

The songs are the heart of this unflashy film, in which folk legend Seeger performs in a London pub.

A glimpse into the working life of Eugéne Käufeler, one of the top chefs in London.

The film opens with an image of a refugee dying beside a wall. The place is Berlin in 1962. Various shots of the wall and its defences follow. The film shows people attempting to cross to West Berlin after the wall was built. We are given a history of Germany’s treatment after the war and the differences between life in East and West Berlin.

Taking a look at more than just DIY in the home - we look at a DIY town situated in the Cotswolds and a DIY narrow gauge railway in Wales.

Horror short

A step-by-step description of how power from the national grid is supplied to British Railways.

The history of a whisky distillery in South Queensferry, Scotland.

Wembley Stadium, London. Widnes beat Hull Kingston Rovers 13-5 in the Rugby League Cup Final.

Vintage cars take part in a rally across Scotland from Edinburgh to Turnberry.

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.

A brief romantic encounter, directed by Howard Blake, composer of the score for The Snowman. A young woman meets a man at a London party. They are quickly infatuated with each other and, after a few days, elope to the seaside - but they soon tire of each other and part ways. Released in 1963, whilst amateur filmmaker Howard Blake was co-chief projectionist at the BFI, where the film enjoyed a brief, popular run in April that year.

Snip the magic scissors ensures that Snap the paper dog has a very Merry Christmas.

An incision into the complacent, mass media world, The Late Show is a potent, provocative short film made up of only one long, carefully composed shot. And it does a lot with a little. Tracing the room of an African American man - a member of the Black Panthers - it sets up his world and contrasts it with the lifestyles promoted by late-night television, highlighting the structural violence, division and alienation.

A BAFTA award nominated cartoon in aid of National anti-litter week.

A film by Tom Spring Smyth was taken during the British Museum (Natural History) Expedition to East Nepal 1961-1962. This is a vibrant and colourful film documenting local life in East Nepal. From children playing on swings and a Ferris Wheel to goat sacrifice, shots of the mountainous landscape and vegetation, agricultural work and daily village life (domestic activities and craftwork).

Building a wooden fishing boat. The draftsman is seen working on the plans, then we see the men in the yard slowly building the vessel up from the keel. Finally the boat is launched and taken out to sea.

1960's short educational film on ten pin bowling.

Five experimentations with film as a medium, a physical object and a record of social reality.

Man on the move, look back, all clear, OK, you're away - music and mantra for a time when the freedom of the road was unsullied and adventurous.

A trade test film. The film opens with the preparations for the start of the 1960 German Moto Grand Prix at Solitude. Also contains footage from Scotland.

Interview from the ambitious, uncompleted survey of British society in the 1960s, Now and Then. Broadcaster Bernard Braden asks aspiring politician Cuthbert Gardner, candidate in Merton local council elections, "Why Tory?".

A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.

A behind-the-scenes look at "The Pool Room" in the 1960s, from the ladies arriving to start the day, to the vans bringing in the post, providing a reel of glimpses of real history.

A journey on British Railways' only narrow gauge line, running 12 miles inland from Aberystwyth up the Rheidol Valley to Devil's Bridge with its impressive wooded gorge and magnificent waterfalls.

A look into the new industrial revolution in Lancashire when, from 1950, more than fifty-five cotton mills were converted for light industries.

A look at the various aircraft flown by British pilots over the last fifty years, including the Sopwith Pup, the Hart and the Blackburn monoplane.

Many of today's railway problems were created during the years of competition between the various railway companies. At Sheffield, for instance, different lines converge, producing a complexity which only results in inefficiency. Problems like this are shown in the film, as well as the new flyover at Rugby, modern signalling on the Southern Region, and passenger amenities at Plymouth.

As the thousands of passengers move about Britain every day, the railway system they use is being transformed : soaring concrete sustains new stations, a hillside is moved to make a new marshalling yard; express freight trains carry complete loads of oil, limestone, cars, frozen foods; griddle cars and Blue Pullmans, roadrailers and driverless trucks - these are only a few of the changes and innovations brought about by the Modernisation Plan.

A London family sets off for the annual hop-picking in Kent.

Trainee army cooks learn to cook and toss pancakes

Letters of the alphabet do battle.

Filmmaker Harold Liversidge’s 1963 documentation of Metzger wearing a military jacket, helmet, and gas mask while painting, flinging and spraying acid onto nylon