Horse Sense

A young Michael Caine bursts on to the scene as a cheeky soldier in this delightful advert for Watney's beer.

Pete and Dud prove to be stout football fans in this Guinness commercial recalling a great sporting moment - however fleeting.

An example of the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips advertising campaign, with talking chimpanzees dressed as humans.

An RAF squadron are alerted to an attack. Flying toucans raid the officers mess and fly off with glasses of Guinness.

What seems a charming stop-motion rhapsody for Bourn-vita chocolate reveals some unpleasant racial insensitivity.

One of the earliest surviving British adverts

Actor, comedian, and Monty Python, John Cleese plays to type as a sophisticate loony in this advertisement for Pye Electronics of Cambridge.

University teams navigate a bend on the river Cam in no ordinary rowing race.

First catch your wriggly pig! Pig rearing from birth to market, and the sale of pedigree pigs overseas. A classroom film by Hugh Brandon-Cox.

Disabled graduate Peter Thweeney simply wants the opportunity to be economically independent, and has ambitions to become a lawyer.

How factually accurate is the 1979 American sci-fi movie 'The Black Hole'? Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking sheds light on the matter.

Anglia TV report on the young disabled entrepreneur that has invented the Lightwriter, a communication device that won a British Design Award

A volunteer cavalry regiment is enthusiastically welcomed home after active service in South Africa.

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

A stroll in the park for civilised city-dwellers in Edwardian South Yorkshire.

The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers - and newsreel cameras!

A vicar is caught flirting with an improperly-dressed chorus girl in this saucy silent comedy.

The Stationmaster at York guides us through a typical day, from dawn to dusk.