Richard Massingham Movies

A road safety film on the dangers of playing in the roads of London in 1947.

Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the...

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs

British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

A narrative tour of different public houses around England.

The story of a family house through four generations

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A comedy of a bachelor struggling to wake up and get to work, whilst living in a boarding house.

An industrial film instructing employees in the then-new air travel industry how to deal with problem customers.