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Who needs to talk to strangers when you're the only one who can understand the garbled mewling of your best buddy cat, Charley?

Don’t listen to Slacky the Sloucher or Giro the Germ will stage a jailbreak – public health cartoon by the Health & Cleanliness Council

Ye Gods! It’s the future of telecommunications – as seen through a cartoon modern lens from the 1950s

Bloody foreign cows coming over here and becoming our dinners

Dangerously addicted to boring old movies? This is a case for Dr BFI, as demonstrated in this 1970s animated promo

Do you know the golden rules of tea making? The Tea Bureau set out to put your cuppa straight in this progressively designed post-war cartoon

Black music and culture in the community

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

Mrs Elizabeth Baker unwinds after a busy day with a nice cup of drinking chocolate.

Bookbinding and a bagatelle: training for disabled people in the interwar years.

It's a hard life being an misunderstood genius - I really should get out more.

Student life and all that jazz - a visit to Liverpool University in1952.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.

Discover why Dan George of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Trixie Parkin-Christie of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.