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- Whilst building a rabbit hutch, a group of children break Dad's saw. Needing to replace it, the children do odd jobs all across London.
- Six children lose a toy plane in a high ruined tower.
- School children save an old junk collector from being accused of a theft and try to prevent his partner from stealing a valuable painting.
- Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years,
- A group of children attempt to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
- This British short portrays the various farming and irrigation techniques that are being used in modern-day Sudan.
- The central character is a working man, David Griffiths, known in the film as "Dafydd Rhys", a school caretaker for decades and a former miner. Dafydd's later years in Ammanford at Amman Valley Grammar School present an ordinary man with extraordinary virtues. His innate dignity is seen here as an inspiration to the film's narrator Ifor Morgan, who recalls in adulthood his experiences as a school pupil under David's wing. The actual David Griffiths never achieved the fame of his brother, the miners' leader and first Welsh secretary Jim Griffiths, but here represents a traditional Welsh proletarian "type", who communicates a strong sense of his community's worth and retains a fierce loyalty to the memory of his fellow pit men. The film's most poignant section deals with the impact on David of the death of his son, Gwilym, from tuberculosis, and the effect on Ifor and his fellow pupils of the caretaker's temporary estrangement from them as he retreats into himself and his memories. Dafydd is also shown leaving the Eisteddfod after his poem, an elegy to his dead son, has failed to win the coveted Chair. Amanwy did win several other chairs which can be found in church halls around South Wales.
- An Oscar-nominated account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1958 recording the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.
- Aspects of the life and work of those who seek oil for tomorrow's needs. A BP Film which consists of a number of episodes and dramatic reconstructions set in the Arabian Gulf, Canada, Zanzibar, Papua, Trinidad and Sicily. In each location a different aspect of the story of the search for oil unfolds.
- An absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.