Arthur Elton Filmes

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning.

Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough...

Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressionistic views of the English countryside as it expounds the...

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.

Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B....

Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Geoffrey Bell’s Shell Film Unit short (produced by Arthur Elton) turns the history and physics of power transmission—from lever and...

Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this...

An intricate and richly detailed observation of every step in the making of an aircraft engine.

Public information film aimed at the unemployed, commissioned by the Ministry of Labour.