The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle 1947
Henry demonstrates his two-wheel tomfoolery, but there's no happy ending for this bike.
Henry demonstrates his two-wheel tomfoolery, but there's no happy ending for this bike.
Road safety film, made for children in the late 1940's, using the fictional town of Puddle-Muddle as an example of the correct traffic and pedestrian rules.
World War II propaganda film that shows the war-time agricultural work of women from the Women's Institute.
Encouraging tens of thousands of people to strip to the waist and have their photo taken isn't easy. But the chest x-ray screening programme was a key part of the fight against tuberculosis, the cause of over 20,000 deaths in 1943. This film shows factory worker Mary overcoming her initial qualms, and ultimately sending a signed copy of her topless skeleton photo to her boyfriend.