Telephone Cables: Machine Operation, Dagenham (1950s)

London’s school kids get to grips with teaching methods, technology and cows in this film from the 1970s explaining educational theories at different London schools.

Never a dull moment for a rural district nurse in the early days of the NHS.

Bus timetables are sacrosanct to some but to others there are more important things in life - and faith is one of them.

Refuse collection you cannot refuse with some state-of-the-art bin business in 1920s Sheffield

It's an Aladdin's Cave of household goods: Donald Sansome's travelling store is a lifeline for the people of rural Leicestershire

Beautiful NHS fundraiser, setting Michael Rosen’s poem to powerful archive images.

A look behind the scenes at the world-famous car factory.

Carnival queens and fantastic floats are captures in this terrific home movie of the Barking & Dagenham Carnival in the mid-1960s.

A man carefully fixes electric cables in a manhole, demonstrating the work of Dagenham’s Telephone Cables company in the 1950s.

Hypnotic footage of a cable winding machine at the Telephone Cables Ltd factory in Dagenham.

People, pets and birds enjoy the flowers and sunshine in this brief film, possibly showing a company social event.

Big grins and granny hats as a bus load of elderly men and women from Barking & Dagenham go on a day trip.

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.