Most Viewed Year 1939 - 97

The film gives a strong view of the everyday life of Icelanders when the film is shot, but that year was a record year for the export of herring...

Castle Films released two cartoons called Christmas Cartoon, this being the first, in a print from the late 1930s. Follows an orphan dog's Christmas...

A class of expectant mothers practise ante-natal exercises designed by Kathleen Vaughan at Paddington (LCC Hospital), London. The purpose of each...

Colour amateur documentary from 1939 on life in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, produced by Frances Hotham. Part 1 (South Africa) includes...

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Through a car accident, a young pilot gets to know a girl who works as a fashion model in the city. She leaves her fiancé in front of him and...

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an...

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling...

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and...

A visit to one of India's oldest cities.

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".