Shell Film Unit Movies

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 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 tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

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

Documentary highlights of the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally and its international competition.

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.

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

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 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...

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

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

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

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

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

Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy...