Richard Massingham Movies

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

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

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...

A provoking film on the place of women.

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

Shops, clubs, theatres, traffic in the Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and Regent Street areas.

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.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

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

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

Documentary on savings

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

Two men, worn down by their dismal daily existence, decide to take action.

Showing the importance of a thorough induction.

British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine.

Richard Massingham stars in an educational short about ways of conserving household energy.

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

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.

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