Shell Film Unit

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A documentary record of the 1953 Mille Miglia, tracing the race across Italy from Brescia to Rome and back.

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy...

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent...

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to...

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Documentary highlights of the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally and its international competition.

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.