Vaulting Horse Display

Frogs legs on film: trailblazing Victorian medical research

Seen but not heard? Three children get up to mischief after mother puts them to bed in this Victorian entertainment.

A surprisingly languid scene shot far from the Boer War battlefields.

A terrifying first-person brush with death at the hands of a dangerous driver

Waves crash onto a jetty on the Kentish shoreline in one of Britain's earliest surviving films

A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea

A new luxury express is put through its paces. This film looks over the shoulders of the select band of craftsmen, engineers and operators, whose combined skills try to ensure that a train journey is a delightful experience.

British Transport Films record the varied daily lives of their neighbours as seen from the high roof of their building in London’s Marylebone.

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

Illustrating the efficiency of express freight trains, and how they link manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Examining a day in the life of what was then the busiest railway system in the world – British Railways.

A 1957 film examining the future for British Railways, and some of the opportunities provided by a new modernisation plan.