Shell Film Unit Movies

A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

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

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

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

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

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy...

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.

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

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

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

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

A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.

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...

Follows the life cycle of the desert locust.

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

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 ci...