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- A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to long distance coach routes. Accompanied by extracts from BBC radio.
- A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.
- A travel guide to the English county of Sussex.
- This British government public-information film is aimed at children and shows them the dangers of playing on railway tracks.
- The movie follows the routine of a busy train station - London's Waterloo Station - making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.
- Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.
- Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers.
- A farmer who sells up and moves his whole farm south in the winter.
- Commemorates the closure of London's tramways.
- The cycle of the seasons in the land around Selborne in Hampshire, home town of Gilbert White, country parson and naturalist.
- Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several awards, including the Technical & Industrial Information section of the Festival for Films for Television in 1961. The film is also particularly noted for its score, by Clifton Parker, which, unlike the earlier Elizabethan Express is uninterrupted by any commentary. (Wikipedia)
- Drama and romance in the lives of those working at Southampton Docks.
- This documentary from British Transport Films follows 24 hours in the life of three British Railways Channel ferry services.
- In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.
- Documental account of trains, railway workers, passengers and landscapes in the winter of 1963 in the UK (The Big Freeze).
- John Betjeman goes on a train journey from King's Lynn to Hunstanton in Norfolk, extolling the pleasures of traveling on a rural branch line.
- As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives of their neighbours from the roof of their building Melbury House.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- Aimed at the overseas market (and with one or two references that would not be acceptable as politically correct today) this film extols the virtue of using rail services for travelers visiting Britain.
- A collage of trains running on London railway lines set to music.
- The construction of the Severn tunnel and a record of the unique group of six Cornish beam engines which kept the tunnel free of water for over 70 years before being replaced by electric pumps.
- Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.
- The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.
- 1950s summer holidays along the Lancashire coast, with a jazz accompaniment.
- How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.
- A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.
- A demonstration to businessmen of the advantages of travelling from city to city via train.
- The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK.
- British Transport documentary about the virtues of a day out in the country.
- A look back at the first 150 years of London buses from the first horse drawn ones through to the Routemaster.
- Promotional item for the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrated by the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period.
- Training film for railway drivers, introducing a new, more versatile locomotive.