Shell Film Unit Movies

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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

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

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 BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologis...

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

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

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.