Sarah Erulkar

A pleasure cruiser is abandoned by all aboard and Ian, Janet and Harry, children of a trawler skipper go out in their launch to claim her. They are marooned on the cruiser by accident and saved by a rival trawler skipper.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Calcutta, the most crowded and overburdened city on Earth.

Never Go With Strangers was intended for children aged between seven and ten and its purpose was ‘to warn them of the dangers of accepting lifts or presents from strangers’. Due to potential distress government officials instructed that the film only be shown under ‘responsible adult supervision’, thus denying it a TV airing for many years.

The film explores the design process of postage stamps and the work of three notable designers, Arnold Machin, Jeffery Matthews and David Gentleman.

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style it conveys much about the social attitudes of this era, and the spirit in which those services were conceived and delivered.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

An introduction to Indian classical dance, presenting regional traditions and their religious and cultural foundations.

Documentary about contamination of the air and other forms of pollution, costing Britain £400 million a year, which are countered by smoke elimination programmes and the use of natural gas, fuel research and other measures.

Sarah Erulkar revisits the world of stamp collecting, in this short narrated by Tom Baker.

Cooking is a kind of loving, features Jean Shrimpton

An anti-smoking public information film in which children investigate adult smoking habits, framing addiction as learned behavior rather than maturity.

Artists, designers and engineers extol the virtues of steel.

An educational film aimed at teenagers to highlight the dangers of alcohol addiction.

District Nurse documents the daily work of two community nurses serving a rural district in East Sussex, following their rounds across farms, villages, and isolated homes. The film records home-based medical care, patient instruction, emergency response, and maternal health services, situating nursing practice within the rhythms of rural life. Produced in the early years of Britain’s National Health Service, the film presents community healthcare as a foundational element of postwar social welfare and public service.

Promotional film, narrated by actor Donald Houston, about Wales, where the hard-fought battles of the past have deposited tourist-attracting remains for the present (e.g. castles) and where opportunities for modern-day leisure pursuits are provided by the geography of the country.