Shell Film Unit Movies

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

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.

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of...

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...

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

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

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

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

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.

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

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

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