Shell Film Unit Movies

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

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

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

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

A brief feature on the short SA-4 aircraft on the ground and in the air.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

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

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Cent...

A documentary looking at the elementary principles, illustrated by means of diagrams and models, of an internal combustion engine.

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct proportion...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary updating the original film made in 1947 demonstrating the theory and practice of aerodynamics.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to its...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how petrol burns in the engine under differing conditions.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

The Shell Film Unit's free-enterprise history of technology.

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.