Movies

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

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

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the...

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

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

Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

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

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

Short road safety film.

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

A narrative tour of different public houses around England.

A road safety film on the dangers of playing in the roads of London in 1947.

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

Public health film, warning of the dangers of this airborne disease through sneezing.

Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of contributed funds for the previous year. ...

An industrial film instructing employees in the then-new air travel industry how to deal with problem customers.

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs