Fly's Eye View

An unusual and visually sophisticated commentary on the routine drabness and drudgery of everyday suburban existence.

To carry on his important work the ego-maniacal scientist Dr Kelly must obtain another hand … a hand which begins to take on a life of its own.

After a short but flammable existence, Victor, a matchbox from Sweden, reflects on life's vicissitudes as he awaits his fate in the gutter.

Extra-terrestrial plantlife is discovered in the Welsh countryside causing mischief for scientist Dr Felix Ackerman, filmed in 1977.

Learn how to speak Geordie with a riotous animation of Scott Dobsons popular vernacular lessons.

Petty party politics gets animated - literally - in this amateur cartoon with a message.

An insightful and understated television documentary following the lives of four Muslim families in Brentford, Manchester and Harrow.

A newsreel camera captures Manchester students' raucous behaviour during rag week, on full display to benefit local hospitals.

These vignettes of Manchester locals at play conjure a city reeling from its industrial success

A rare glimpse into the leisure pursuits of ordinary people in pre-war Britain.

The hydraulic northern powerhouse - how water kept the rainy city going.

Get the speeches over with, we want the fashion show! Lancashire Cotton Fair opens in Manchester

The stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet are reunited on stage for the first time since 1968 as part of the BFI and British Council’s Shakespeare on Film.

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party

The Sunday school in their Sunday best taking their message into the community.

Anglesey-based artist Charles Tunnicliffe swaps brushes for a camera and offers us the chance to look a cormorant in its emerald-green eye.

Life on a Wiltshire farm.

Warning: contains images of men wearing nappies!