Shell Film Unit

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968.

In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it encounters bumps caused by uneven surfaces. To prevent incessant jolting, the wheels are securely attached to the car using a system that allows for flexibility.

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 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 winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

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

A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

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

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

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

Highlights from the 1951 race from Monaco.

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

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.

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

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.

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.