Producer
How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.
Producer
Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.
Associate Producer
Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.
Producer
Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.
Associate Producer
Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough schooling in spite of wartime obstacles.
Producer
The Shell Film Unit's free-enterprise history of technology.
Director
A British documentary short about nutrition
Director
Public information film aimed at the unemployed, commissioned by the Ministry of Labour.
Producer
The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.
Director
The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.
Producer
Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.
Director
Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this film entertainingly depicts some of the prospects opened up by having a savings account.
Director
An intricate and richly detailed observation of every step in the making of an aircraft engine.
Additional Photography
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.
Director
Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressionistic views of the English countryside as it expounds the virtues of farming and shepherding.
