Richard Massingham Movies

A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.

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

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

Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road.

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

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

Documentary on savings

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

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

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

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

Showing the importance of a thorough induction.

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

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

Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard...

A narrative tour of different public houses around England.

Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the...

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