It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

A concrete reason to give a dam about water supplies in Northern Ireland, in the heart of the picturesque Mourne Mountains

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty.

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata

Have a doggy treat - and meet some very well groomed visitors to Blackpool.

A truck driver thinks he’s in luck when he meets a strange girl by the road in this supernatural horror short

Teenage actors discuss their work with Franco Zeffirelli on Romeo and Juliet.

Barnsley CEAG factory women light the way forward for mining safety lamp production in this informative 1930s short film.

A highly revealing look at the high expectations for coal mining in Yorkshire shortly before the defeat of the miners and mass pit closures.

A real appetiser of a film, as Yorkshire and beyond reveals some of its gastronomic concoctions, such as the Pontefract cake, Bakewell pudding, and fare not for the queasy.

Deep underground, Yorkshire miners hew their living out of the coalface.

A Barnsley miner dreams of shooting a film about life down the pits in this audaciously ambitious amateur feature.

You may remember school processions, or having to perform in a play in front of the parents, as rather dull; not for these children in the early 1960s who clearly relish showing off.

Mrs Cross takes the Daz test but what will the outcome be?

Points of view from a production company at the outset of commercial television in the UK.

From out of the vaults comes this pre-WWII cinema advert for ice-cream

A hard-working Catford clippie and her family star in this cinema ad for hot chocolate.

In 1972 Britain entered the European common market full of beans. What could go wrong?

A cup of Horlicks helps a struggling husband bring home the bacon in this 1950s advert.