Movies:

  • 1943
    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself (1943)

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

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    Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography....

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself
  • 1953
    Turn the Key Softly

    Turn the Key Softly (1953)

    Turn the Key Softly

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    A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....

    Turn the Key Softly
  • 1951
    Facts and Fancies

    Facts and Fancies (1951)

    Facts and Fancies

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    Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal....

    Facts and Fancies
  • 1947
    Watch Your Meters

    Watch Your Meters (1947)

    Watch Your Meters

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    Richard Massingham stars in an educational short about ways of conserving household energy....

    Watch Your Meters
  • 1946
    Pool of Contentment

    Pool of Contentment (1946)

    Pool of Contentment

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    A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss....

    Pool of Contentment
  • 1949
    Another Case of Poisoning

    Another Case of Poisoning (1949)

    Another Case of Poisoning

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    British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine....

    Another Case of Poisoning
  • 1953
    Will Any Gentleman...?

    Will Any Gentleman...? (1953)

    Will Any Gentleman...?

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    A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova....

    Will Any Gentleman...?
  • 1946
    Women After the War

    Women After the War (1946)

    Women After the War

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    A provoking film on the place of women....

    Women After the War
  • 1945
    Coughs and Sneezes

    Coughs and Sneezes (1945)

    Coughs and Sneezes

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    This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it....

    Coughs and Sneezes
  • 1942
    The Five-Inch Bather

    The Five-Inch Bather (1942)

    The Five-Inch Bather

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    A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water....

    The Five-Inch Bather
  • 1952
    Brief City

    Brief City (1952)

    Brief City

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    Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London....

    Brief City
  • 1948
    Pedestrian Crossing

    Pedestrian Crossing (1948)

    Pedestrian Crossing

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    Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road....

    Pedestrian Crossing
  • 1949
    Warning to Travellers

    Warning to Travellers (1949)

    Warning to Travellers

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    Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard Massingham....

    Warning to Travellers
  • 1947
    Agricultural Holiday Camps

    Agricultural Holiday Camps (1947)

    Agricultural Holiday Camps

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    The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm....

    Agricultural Holiday Camps
  • 1934
    Tell Me If It Hurts

    Tell Me If It Hurts (1934)

    Tell Me If It Hurts

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    A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham....

    Tell Me If It Hurts
  • 1941
    Dangers in the Dark

    Dangers in the Dark (1941)

    Dangers in the Dark

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    “During the Second World War, blackout regulations were imposed to make it harder for enemy aircraft to find their targets over Britain. This plunged parts of the country into darkness and made travelling by road especially dangerous. It was hoped th...

    Dangers in the Dark
  • 1944
    Piccadilly Roundabout

    Piccadilly Roundabout (1944)

    Piccadilly Roundabout

    01944HD

    Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas....

    Piccadilly Roundabout
  • 1944
    Elopement in France

    Elopement in France (1944)

    Elopement in France

    01944HD

    ...

    Elopement in France
  • 1948
    What's In a Number

    What's In a Number (1948)

    What's In a Number

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    National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham....

    What's In a Number
  • 1950
    The Cure

    The Cure (1950)

    The Cure

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    Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure his lumbago....

    The Cure