Progressive House

David Prowse (the frame of Darth Vader) appears as the iconic Green Cross Code Man, heaping praise on a young GXC expert.

An enticing government call for men to retrain as skilled engineers to help with the war effort.

Dusty the kangaroo catches a shadowy figure in the act of dumping an old mattress in this campaigning cartoon

Long before the ‘Charley Says’ campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s, another cartoon Charley was used to demystify the newly created NHS.

TB or not TB – that is the question travelling x-ray screening programmes are out to answer on a large scale

Another of Richard Massingham’s snappy public information fillers finds the oafish everyman’s personal hygiene in question again.

Hangry animals demand better grub in this bizarre advert by E.T. Green

This family favourite is guaranteed to have you singing all the way to the bread bin

Seawards heads a great ship, the biggest of its day

A view down the High Street featuring the Albert Clock, a shot of Queen's Bridge and the docks

Join Belfast’s first female Lord Mayor and reconsider how disabled people navigate the streets of Belfast.

Witness Northern Ireland’s first telecommunications device for Deaf people

A deft music hall act adapted for film, featuring the only known appearance of pioneer filmmaker Robert Paul

Take a fighter jet, a Top Gun pilot with sunglasses and a brand new SAAB 900 and you have a sure-fire vehicle to launch a Hollywood career.

A wandering warrior dreams of a new form of expression, in this promo for UNKLE’s album The Road: Part II / Lost Highway Pt. II directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.

A world away from zany humour, Richard Lester shows he can also capture the easy opulence of the upper class nibbling After Eight mints.

Life is looking up! The war is over and the “Corona” Man can visit his “Corona” families once more, door-to-door.