How to File 1941
Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.
Shell Film Unit
The Safety Net 1978
A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.
A Light in Nature 1960
A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.
Waiting on Weather 1975
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.
Model Flight 1951
An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.
The Early Americans 1975
A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.
Song of the Clouds 1957
A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.
Lord Siva Danced 1948
A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.
The History of the Helicopter 1952
A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.
Approaching the Speed of Sound 1957
A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing that of sound.
Beyond the Speed of Sound 1959
This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound.
Mille Miglia 1953
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.
Debris Tunnelling 1943
A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
Belgian Grand Prix 1955
Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.
Food or Famine 1962
A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation.
Forming of Metals 1957
The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.
Hydraulics 1976
A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.
Air Parade 1951
A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.
Unseen Enemies 1959
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.
The Forerunner 1958
A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy Mountains scheme.
