Ransomes Trolley Buses

A gentleman cyclist learns the error of his ways in one of the earliest surviving British film advertisements.

Deceptively simple early animated ad for Shell petrol

There's no need to renew your socks with the Trojan Utility Car - you simply can't afford not to have one!

One of the earliest films showing off a brand: three women pack Vinolia soap into boxes

One of the earliest surviving British adverts

Pretty in Pink 1920s style: an innovatively hand-coloured cinema advert for Twink dye.

A roll-call of personalities working at Maidstone's livestock market feature in this charming film from a chilly January in 1932

Citizens of Maidstone get all self-conscious in front of Wilf Green's camera in this amusing and original variation of the home movie

As the last months of peace pass quickly by, Canterbury's firemen gear up for the war to come.

Take a trip along the course of the River Medway in this lyrical film from the 1930s - from its source up in the Sussex Downs, through pastoral Kent to the historic town of Aylesford.

A remarkable record of Maidstone during 1964, including summer shopping in open-air markets, winter snows and flooding in the town – and ending with scenes of night-time neon.

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.