Shell Film Unit

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

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 proportions to create an efficient fuel for an engine.

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An introduction to Indian classical dance, presenting regional traditions and their religious and cultural foundations.

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

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 its widespread use in many forms today.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

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

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