Shell Film Unit Movies

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

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 reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

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

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

An introduction to Indian classical dance, presenting regional traditions and their religious and cultural foundations.

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

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

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

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

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

Created in 1954 by the Shell Oil Company, "Proud Ships" was directed by Philip Armitage. Across and around the world from oilfields to refineries...