Boy and the Cat

Mingo, Jerry and Thea: names of the dogs or people seen? Either way, they will be connected, for sure, with Isla Johnston of Bryn Mêl, Glyngarth, Anglesey, who shot the footage.

The quirks of a whippet race, with novices in winklepickers learning from the old hands, all fully elucidated in broad West Yorkshire dialect.

An English Bull Terrier warns wartime cinema goers to put their cigarettes out with more care.

Gardener’s nightmare: a kitten at large in a flower bed!

Little disturbs the peace in Little London - despite some foxhunting, polo and the Second World War!

Oh to be Ginger Tom the cat and while away the hours!

One big happy family on the streets of South Shields for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee visit.

Travel into the belly of whale lore with Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical tale for little children.

Going with the flow on the River Tyne at South Shields.

Getting there: enjoy a racy history of transport and travel by land, sea and air.

An uptempo look at man’s passionate obsession with time from first light to the dawn of the digital age.

Staying alive, from a single cell to a big bang. Blink and you’ll miss the end.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.