Richard Massingham Movies

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

Two men, worn down by their dismal daily existence, decide to take action.

Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure his lumbago.

Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

A road safety film on the dangers of playing in the roads of London in 1947.

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.

Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the...

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine.

A narrative tour of different public houses around England.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

The story of a family house through four generations