Richard Massingham Movies

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

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...

The story of a family house through four generations

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...

Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.

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

The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

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.

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

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

Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard...

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

Richard Massingham stars in an educational short about ways of conserving household energy.

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

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

Short road safety film.