Shell Film Unit

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing...

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

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 BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

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 nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the...

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

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

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

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

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated abridged documentary depicting the issues facing engineers delivering high speed flight. It was initially made in three parts...

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

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