Landscope. Colour, 1 reel, NZ NFU. A Kiwi-made doco on classifying all the land of NZ according to its potential, and with interviews from farmers and others using each type of land.

Dolphins. Colour, 1 reel, Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau's dive team on board the "Calypso" study dolphins.

Tornado, Earthquakes, Tsunami. Colour, 1 reel, USA. The weather disasters that can befall our planet. Shows the result of a major earthquake in Alaska, which sunk a town.

Basic Oxygen Steelmaking. Colour, 1 reel, UK. How steel is made commercially using converters and basic slag.

Discovering Electronic Music. Colour, 1 reel, USA. Synthesisers are used to create music.

Child of Kasai. Colour, 1 reel, Belgium. The life of a young schoolboy in South Kasai, Congo, in the late 1950s.

Zanzibar. b/w, 1 reel. Brief history and tour around Zanzibar in 1959, then under the rule of Sultan Khalifa.

Billy crosses the road. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Road safety for small children. Set in 1950s Picton.

S.O.S. Iceberg. b/w, 1 reel, 1933. Abridged version of U.S - German co-production. A team of explorers travel to northern Greenland, but the ice they are on breaks off and slowly drifts out to sea. They have neither food nor radio. How can they escape this dire predicament? (Leni Riefenstahl, Gibson Gowland, Rod LaRocque, Sepp Rist.)

NZ Mirror, # 13. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Life in NZ during the 1950s (?).

Stingray. Eastmancolor, 1 reel. Only the first 3 minutes of an episode of the undersea rescue squad.

Fire Mountain. Colour, 1 reel. Volcanoes erupting: this is about as close as you want to be!.

Oswald Rabbit. b/w, 1 reel, animation. Oswald's adventures in the forest.

Newsreels, 1946. b/w, 1 reel, silent. Major events of the year 1946.

Cowboys & Rodeo. b/w, 1 reel. Crazy humans ride wild bulls and wild horses, and quickly end up crashing to the ground with various broken bones.

Bolts & Nuts. b/w, 1 reel. Technical training film.

Productivity & the self-fulfilling prophecy. Colour, 1 reel. There is apparently good reason to expect that people's expectations can cause events to happen. This is called the "Pygmalion Effect".

The Little Prince. Colour, 1 reel, claymation. Charming story of a small boy on a quest.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. b/w, 1 reel. Coleridge's epic poem with visual accompaniment.

Wildlife of the Mountains. Colour, 1 reel, NZ NFU, 16 minutes. Wild animal life in the snowy upper peaks of the South Island. Deer, goats, thar, and chamois racing through the snowfields. Bird life in the Ohau Valley. Birth of fawn. Salmon in the Waitaki River. An insect-eating plant.

You Yourself Incorporated. Colour, 1 reel, USA. Joe Powell shows how you can be a better manager of yourself, your most valuable asset.

Living Wall of Water. Colour, 1 reel.

Health in Hot Climates. Colour, 1 reel, UK Army. When you leave chilly England by jet to go to some hot land (such as Malaysia), there is a real danger of dehydration and other tropical problems. The film aims to educate soldiers to avoid these problems.

Sequel to Surtsey. Colour, 1 reel. An undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Iceland, and a new island is born.

Pictorial Parade #101, & #107. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU, 1960. USS Hallibutt visits. The NZ High Commissioner visits the NZ Batallion in Malaya. Constructing the Haast Pass road. Wellington Fur Seal colony. Waihi today: goldfields to Pye factory.

The Cat in the Hat. Colour, 1 reel, animation, Dr Seuss. An exuberant and flamboyant cat entertains two housebound children with the help of Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Fall Line. Colour, 1 reel, USA. Skiing and mountaineering in Teton National Park.

Hanse Cogge. Colour, 1 reel, Germany. All commentary in English. A medieval Hanseatic trading ship is discovered at the bottom of a river, and is carefully restored using modern technology.

Dalai Lama arrives in India. b/w, 1 reel, 1959, silent. The leader of Tibet arrives in India after escaping over the Himalayas from the Chinese invaders, and is welcomed by Pandit Nehru.

It came from Outer Space. b/w, 1 reel. This is NOT the 3-D version. After engine faults, an alien spacecraft crashes on Earth. While repairing it, the crew abduct some locals, and impersonate them. But how will they cope when an angry lynch mob threatens them?

Flare. Colour, 1 reel, 1977. NZ NFU. Freestyle skiing. Skiiers at Queenstown and then they ski down an active volcano, Mt Ngaruahoe.

The White Continent. Colour, 1 reel. Antarctica.

Bahamas. b/w, 1 reel. Life in the multi-island Caribbean country of the Bahamas. This film seems to be mid-1950s, before independence.

A Sporting Chance. Colour, 1 reel, 1980, Tasmanian Film Corp. Girls can do anything, and in sports, they are at least as competant as the males.

Newsreels 1943. b/w, 1 reel, silent. Major events of the year 1943.

Cycling for Safety. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Road safety advice for young cyclists.

Ladakh. Colour, 1 reel. Life in this arid Buddhist region of Tibet, but now within the borders of India.

Japan Screen Topics. Colour, 1 reel, Japan. Modern life in Japan.

Folies Bergère. b/w, 1 reel, silent. Early French porn, featuring naughty ladies dancing and showing those wicked ankles.

A Stamp is Born. Colour, 1 reel. Australia's King George VI 2d stamp of 1950. The film also shows classic Australian stamps from 1913 to 1949.

War & Order. b/w, 1 reel, UK, 1940. Air raids on London, coping with life during the war, and the formation of the Home Guard.

Overtaking. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Road safety in NZ.

NZ Mirror, #17. b/w, 1 reel. Life in NZ in the 1950s.

Map Reading. b/w, 1 reel, UK Army, 1945. Army training film on use of maps.

Light, Part 4: Lenses. b/w, 1 reel.

How writing started. b/w, 1 reel. From hieroglyphs to today's lettering system.

Bruins go Arctic. b/w, 1 reel. The antics of two playful bear cubs.

City Limits. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Life in NZ in the 1950s (?).

Visual Training: What does the Enemy See? b/w, 1 reel. Army training.

The Mail Exchange. Colour, 1 reel, Australia. The new Perth mail processing centre.

Antarctic Outpost: Campbell Island. Colour, 1 reel, NZ NFU. The cold Campbell Island, home to a weather observatory. The rough voyage there by boat from Bluff.

Fodor Dostoyevsky. Colour, 1 reel, 1979. A Russian-made doco on the great novelist Dostoyevsky.

Strategy for Survival. Colour, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Struggle for survival for two endangered birds, the Black Stilt, and the Pied Stilt, in the Mckenzie Country of the South Island.

Asthma and Your Child. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Children suffering from asthma are taught fun games that will allow them to cope and live normal lives.

Common Cause. b/w, 1 reel, US Army. American World War II propaganda film on getting along with the Chinese, who are also in the fight against the evil Japs.

Guns. b/w, 1 reel, Canada. Large weapons of war. Incomplete.

Mission to Earth. Colour, 1 reel. An alien spaceship looks at the land use of Earth.

Our friend Angela. b/w, 1 reel, 1972, Mosfilm. Professor Angela Davis visits Russia. Her previous life, and her harrassment by the U.S. regime.

Flight of the Penguins. Colour, 1 reel, Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau and his team of divers on the "Calypso" study the lives of penguins.

Coleridge: the Fountain and the Cave. Colour, 1 reel. The life and work of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Victory Parade in Red Square. b/w, 1 reel, 1945. Mosfilm. Joseph Stalin presides over the victory parade in Moscow on a rainy morning. The generals gallop up on horseback. Highlight is when all the German army banners are thrown in a heap on the ground.

Shostakovich. b/w, 1 reel. The life and music of Dimitry Shostakovich, composer.

Four Shorts on Architecture. Colour, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Modern architectural challenges around NZ.

The Soldier's Health. Colour, 1 reel. Army training film.

Cartoons "D" . Colour, 1 reel. Loony Tunes, Wombles, & others.

Caspian Sea: People & Oil. Colour, 1 reel, Mosfilm. Amazing look at the vast wealth being pumped out of the Caspian Sea. Ocean cities. Oil riggers. Early days and recent.

Web of Life: the Living Mountains. Colour, 1 reel.

Molesworth. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. The huge sheep farm in Marlborough, Molesworth Station, went bankrupt as a result of rabbits getting all the sheep food. Now the government has taken it over and is running it as a cattle station. But the huge area means aircraft and horses are needed.

Marx for Beginners. Colour, 1 reel. Animation

NZ Mirror, #5. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. Speed boats, and more life in NZ in the 1950s.

Newsreels 1937. b/w, 1 reel, silent. Venice before the war. Shanghai attacked by the Japanese. The Hindenburg explodes at New York. Lots of scenes of the giant airship in flight and on board, before the explosion.

Making of a Dream. Colour, 1 reel, NZ. The making of "Sleeping Dogs".

This is Siberia. Colour, 1 reel, Mosfilm. Life and industrial development in icy Siberia. Reel one of a two-part film.

On Seven Hills They Built a City. Colour, 1 reel. Rome.

Johnson, R.N. Colour, 1 reel, NZ. The Maori-Pakeha Land Wars were fought over serious misunderstandimngs on both sides. The film shows how both sides saw it as they re-enact a battle.

Anton Chekhov. Colour, 1 reel, Mosfilm. The life of Chekhov.

Wild Africa. Colour, 1 reel, BBC. Animals of Africa, how they all live together. Ecology.

Secrets of the Plant World. Colour, 1 reel, Walt Disney. Amazing facts about some unusual plants. Time-lapse filming shows what happens.

The Shoplifter. Colour, 1 reel, USA. How shoplifters manage to get away with billions of dollars in loot, even large items like TV sets.

Red Planet – Mars. Colour, 1 reel. Mars.

There is no god but God. Colour, 2 reels, BBC. Islam.

Golden Fish. Colour, 1 reel, Jacques Cousteau. Incomplete.

Caesar & Cleopatra. Colour, 1 reel. George Bernard Shaw explains his take on the affair between Julius Caesar and the Queen of Egypt.

Oedipus Rex: The Age of Sophocles. Colour, 1 reel. Ancient Greece.

Barenboim on Beethoven. Colour, 1 reel. Daniel Barenboim explains Beethoven, then plays a piece.

Promises. Colour, 1 reel. Unmasking the lies and half-truths of the advertising industry.

Galileo: the Challenge of Reason. Colour, 1 reel. Galileo Galilei discovers that the Earth rotates around the sun, rather than being centre of the universe, and is hauled before the Inquisition and forced to recant.

State of the Nation: NZ 1945 to 1954. b/w, 1 reel, NZ NFU. The main events of those years captured on film.

Espionage. b/w, 1 reel, Canadian Army. Although we are not at war at the moment is no reason to be complacent, for enemy agents are even more active in peacetime than in war. A paranoid Canadian approach to life.