Movies: Strand Film Company

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz....

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)...

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry....

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours, after an eleven-week initial training period, they are committed to their work as well as their leisure-...

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products....

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in t...

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes....

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life....

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden....

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes thr...

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid....

Film of the weekly radio programme devised by Howard Thomas, which began on 1st January 1941 and soon had an estimated regular audience of ten million who listened as the panel answered, unrehearsed, questions sent in by the public....

Anti nazi short....

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII....

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries....

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively....

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions....

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert. With no intercom, a wounded crewman and little fuel, they must fight their way through an Italian colu...

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A 1’ at Lloyd’s sets out with a valuable cargo on her adventurous voyage; she is reported missing; her safe arrival is ann...

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough schooling in spite of wartime obstacles....