Shell Film Unit Filmes

A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it...

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 ...

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing...

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.