A Date with an Enfield

As the general election is held in the UK, it's polling day for the Clangers on a small blue planet far away.

Two virtuoso performances in one – Shakespeare's complete works presented in puppet form by a master of animation

As sublime as it is silly, this ambitious animated short mixes a vision of a dystopian, tower block Britain with anarchic vaudeville humour

Don’t tell the Spotty man but Superted has a new friend. A stop motion predecessor of the superhero teddy idea

What does it mean to be British? You might not have a much clearer idea after watching this animated portrait, but you will certainly be entertained

Discover an animated portrait of Britain, brought to life frame by painstaking frame, with our free-to-view BFI Player archive collection - available as part of Animation 2018, a year-long celebration of animation

Step inside Sydney S. Bird's 1930s electrical components factory in Enfield, a hive of activity full of well-oiled machines.

An energetic day for these boys as they participate in running, sack races and boxing matches.

Gorgeous colour film of a school fair in Enfield with sports day and Dagenham Girl Pipers display

Glimpses of a delightfully quirky mobile puppeteers van entertaining children and the newly opened Enfield Civic Centre.

Colourful and lively home movie record of garden activities and school sports day in Enfield Town Park.

Amateur footage of the home guard on patrol and at ease in the fields outside London, where anti-tank weapons are tested in front of suburban houses.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.