Adrian Brunel

Bolibar

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

Salvage with a Smile

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.

Tembi

Inguti, an old African chief, recalls his life as a young hunter. He sets out to find food for the forthcoming feast. On reaching the shore of Fire Mountain lake he finds dead fish which he believes to be an ill omen. On his return, he warns the witch doctor that the land is cursed, but his warning is ignored and he is pronounced mad. While the tribe continue with the feast, Inguti leaves with his wife and small son.

Bookworms

A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.

The First of the Few

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery

An opening section of heavy handed humour about boxing styles gives way to a genuine and extraordinary discovery in this silent curio.

Typical Budget

A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris Fashions - For Men".

Elstree Calling

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

The Lion Has Wings

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.

The Constant Nymph

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined

A Light Woman

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.

Crossing the Great Sagrada

A spoof travelogue of an expedition by three explorers, confusing London and New York with Papua, sending up film effects, censorship and a profusion of other cinema-related targets.

Yellow Caesar

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Prison Breaker

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..

Dassan: An Adventure in Search of Laughter Featuring Nature's Greatest Little Comedians

A 1930 black and white nature documentary featuring the jackass penguins in their native haunt in the South West coast of Africa.

The Crooked Billet

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Blackguard

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

The Invader

A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.

The Rebel Son

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.

Cut It Out

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

The Vortex

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

Blighty

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

The Man Without Desire

A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.