Shell Film Unit Movies

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how petrol burns in the engine under differing conditions.

Surveys the history of cinematography and microphotography with many examples of the strides that have been taken in these fields. The history of the...

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

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

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

A short documentary feature demonstrating the Blackburn Beverley aircraft on the ground and in flight.

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...

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

The Shell Film Unit's free-enterprise history of technology.

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research...

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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 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...