Shell Film Unit Movies

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes.

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

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

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 Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

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

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