Documentary warning of the "menacing shadow" of the atomic bomb.
The final short in the Secrets of Life series.
A docu-almanac about British sports personalities.
Documentary detailing 50 years of British involvement in the oil industry of Iran.
Painter Mr Stan Bult records the face make-up of clowns on eggshells, in order to ensure every clown is distinct: to safeguard the unwritten law that clowns do not copy the make-up of another clown.
A Royal Life: Mary of Teck, Queen & Mother
An Evening of Fashion at the Savoy Hotel London
Brilliant documentary showing how British Insulated Cables can electrify your home!
Bournemouth Orchestra perform a piece of music - Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2".
"An "Emile" expert demonstrates a charmingly simple coiffure." British Pathé
A trip around England meeting various oddities and obscurities including a hair raising Taxi drive around 1950s central London.
Meet a gentleman with no bones to speak of - but a lot of movement.
Paris, France. Franz Reichelt wearing the parachute that he designed and invented before ascending the Eiffel Tower. Reichelt standing on platform high up on the tower preparing to jump he hovers on the brink for some time and then eventually jumps falling straight down to his death. Police and small crowd around the body of Reichelt as it is carried away, they then measure the depth of the hole made by his fall.
This film is a compilation of footage shot by Associated British Pathe, which covered royal events for its newsreels, and the company would have been ideally placed to use their footage to make short films for the COI. The varied life of the Queen depicted in the film encompasses duties such as making the first telephone trunk call in 1958, from Bristol.
Mr. Armstrong’s racing stable is preparing to send one of its top horses to run in Paris's Maisons Lafitte, when the thoroughbred is unexpectedly injured. Its replacement is Dunderhead, lesser fancied, but favourite of jockey and stable lad, Albert. Meanwhile, two crooked stable hands plan to use the cross channel trip to smuggle forged banknotes.
Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.
A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the main issues by Ludovic Kennedy and Group-Captain Cheshire.
This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.