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Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration...

Never Go With Strangers was intended for children aged between seven and ten and its purpose was ‘to warn them of the dangers of accepting...

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition,...

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

On an English farm, six reckless children play at being a fierce band of Apache warriors, unaware of the many dangers to which they are exposed....

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.

The President had been due to visit twice before, but on both occasions the trip had to be cancelled. The first time was in 1963, the same year as...

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...

2-6 March 1961 saw the Queen and Prince Philip make their first and only state visit to Iran. Their host was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-80), the...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against...

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the...

An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and...

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the...

Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers.

Arthur Mullard and Kenneth Williams supply the voices of two gnomes locked in a car boot in this crime prevention short; another impressive example...

Queen Elizabeth's younger and only sibling, Princess Margaret, went on a 5-week tour of Mauritius and East Africa in September-October 1956.

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.

A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.