Movies

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

A comedy of a bachelor struggling to wake up and get to work, whilst living in a boarding house.

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

An industrial film instructing employees in the then-new air travel industry how to deal with problem customers.

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

The story of a family house through four generations

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

Showing the importance of a thorough induction.

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...