Telephone Cables: Machine Parts, Dagenham (1956)

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

Fascinating glimpse of working life showing women operating machinery at the huge Telephone Cables factory in Dagenham in the late 1950s.

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.

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.