Street Scenes IV: Down the drain

Workers from a south London cardboard box factory take on local rivals Upper Tooting in this film from the 1930s.

Horses pulling beer and a police dog feature in this children’s TV series that show children what they can see in the streets around them.

Children’s TV show encouraging London children to look at the life in the streets around them.

Film for young children introducing them to the different workers they can meet in public towns, from traffic wardens to milkmen.

There’s long jump, skipping, tug-of-war and a sack race in this charming film from a factory sports day, which starts with some impressive drinking.

Gifts of pocket watches and laundry baskets in this Christmas film, featuring much present-opening, cracker-pulling and general festive gaiety.

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.