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Joyous scenes in Redruth, Cornwall at the wedding of a Nigerian couple in 1964 - who incorporate both British and traditional attire into the day's...

'Billy Merson, the great Nottingham-born music hall performer, presents one of his signature numbers. The film clearly captures Merson's comic...

Charming 60s travelogue inviting us to enjoy the delights of Eastbourne, where the sun always shines!

Celebrity endorsement: Stanley Baldwin introduces George Arliss playing the legendary PM.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical...

This short, silent film captures one of Britain's minor little railways: the Leek and Manifold Light Railway on the Staffordshire Moorlands. The...

The earliest surviving footage of bustling Victorian Bradford. A girl stands centre, possibly selling something to passersby. A small brass band...

Two Indian women wash a baby with a jug of water, while a man with a turban sits behind them.

See how Sally Jenkins and her driver, Thomas, run Hertfordshire's mobile library service with military precision.

The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight.

A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

A young Scottish teen tries his best to overcome his fear of sleeping in this short horror.

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the...

Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3am in the morning he is unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over...

An audio-driven animated documentary covering a day of life in Yorkshire.

Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson...

Memorial service at St. Paul's cathedral to the Antarctic heroes. The arrival of the Lord Mayor of London and Sheriffs.

This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of colour film into some of the punched holes. Only the...

Welephant, a character that is still handing out fire safety advice to children today, here appeals to kids not to play with matches. Very...