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A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

A brief feature on the short SA-4 aircraft on the ground and in the air.

A documentary featuring the Avro "Vulcan" jet aircraft on the ground and in flight.

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.

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

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

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

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research...

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

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

A short documentary feature demonstrating the Blackburn Beverley aircraft on the ground and in flight.

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 BAFTA award nominated documentary updating the original film made in 1947 demonstrating the theory and practice of aerodynamics.

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...

The Shell Film Unit's free-enterprise history of technology.

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 ...

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

Follows the life cycle of the desert locust.