Richard Massingham Filmes

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

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...

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...

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.

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

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.

The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

The story of a family house through four generations

Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road.