Directing
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman McLaren passage where household furniture springs to life—selling the idea that “many a little makes a lot.”
Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.
“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but this Devon postie has some startling ideas about improving efficiency... The inimitable Richard Massingham, a doctor turned actor and filmmaker, co-directed this film, and appears in it as the testy Mr Proctor. This film was produced by John Grierson, often hailed as the father of British documentary. It was made for the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit, one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. It provided a springboard for many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement.” - BFI
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.
Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.
Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.
The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.
Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs
The story of a family house through four generations
Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.
Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.
Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the Holy Cross, Roscrea, County Tipperary, as they quietly go about their business as farmers, scholars, artists, and writers—evoking 10 centuries of a shifting social, political, and religious landscape in the heart of Ireland.
National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.
Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure his lumbago.
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