Shell Film Unit

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how petrol burns in the engine under differing conditions.

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

A BAFTA award nominated abridged documentary depicting the issues facing engineers delivering high speed flight. It was initially made in three parts in 1957.

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

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.

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

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

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

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

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.

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

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.