Bfi Movies

Time-honoured craftsmanship at Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset.

Enjoy pre-dinner cocktails in the company of organ maestro Nick Olson, tickling the ivories at Uncle Tom's Cabin, Minnis Bay, Birchington.

The mayor's daughter gets hitched in style in the Kent market town.

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

As part of a wider anti-litter message, this film addresses the problems of rubbish left on beaches.

A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition...

Take a scenic trip through 1920s North Wales to the sea.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

Harrow’s extraordinary and opulent pageant, and seaside holidays on the south coast.

The construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland.

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

The home and family life of incoming Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

Young scholars get busy for Newcastle-on-Tyne's 'Education Week' in the tour of Tyneside classrooms.

Spellbinding images of Birmingham between the wars.

A couple's untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski's The Tenant in UK cinemas.

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.