Cecil Trouncer

The ill effects on children's bodies and minds of the chaotic conditions being countered by the endeavours of UNESCO. The film emphasises especially the problem of the devastated areas.

Mariée au Grand Électeur de Hanovre Georges-Louis, Sophie-Dorothée s'éprend de Königsmarck, un officier suédois au service de l'armée de son époux. Amant de la Comtesse Platen, Königsmarck l'abandonne pour Sophie-Dorothée.

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better accompaniment than the drawings of Ronald Searle. The BFI commissioned four films from Halas & Bactchelor to be screened in the “Telekinema” for the Festival of Britain. Pitched as an experiment in combining verse with illustrations, this fourth and last edition was the only one that contained a single work, with plenty of room to breath.

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

Classique drame britannique sur les résidents d'une grande maison terrasse à Londres entre Noël 1938 et Septembre 1939. Parmi eux sont jeunes motoriste Boon Percy (Richard Attenborough) et sa mère (Gladys Henson); la maîtresse de maison, Mme Vizzard (Joyce Carey), qui est veuve et un croyant dans spiritisme; Mme Josser (Fay Compton), M. Josser (Wylie Watson) et leur fille adolescente (Susan Shaw); le moyen spiritualiste excentrique M. squales (Alastair Sim), et Connie Coke coloré (Ivy St Helier). Percy est en amour avec la fille du Josser, Doris (Susan Shaw), et se contrecœur vers le crime pour amasser des fonds pour l'impressionner avec. Mais les choses tournent mal. Boon Percy (Richard Attenborough) vit avec sa mère dans une maison louée partagée avec un assortiment de personnages dans le centre de Londres. Bien que bien intentionné, Percy se mélange avec des gangsters et assassiner. L'histoire se concentre sur les effets que cela a sur Percy et les autres résidents.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

La vie de l'un des pionniers du cinématographe en Grande-Bretagne, William Friese-Greene.

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.

Le professeur Henry Higgins, expert en phonétique, fait la connaissance de la jeune Eliza Doolittle au langage populaire. Avec son ami, le colonel Pickering, il fait le pari de la faire passer pour une duchesse...