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 British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

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

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

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

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

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

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

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

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 ...

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

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

Martial Dances of Malabar (1958) is a short documentary directed by Paul Zils, focusing on the traditional martial arts of the Malabar region in...

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

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

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