Richard Massingham Movies

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

The story of a family house through four generations

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.

The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

A comedy of a bachelor struggling to wake up and get to work, whilst living in a boarding house.

Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure his lumbago.

An industrial film instructing employees in the then-new air travel industry how to deal with problem customers.

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.