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Who needs to talk to strangers when you're the only one who can understand the garbled mewling of your best buddy cat, Charley?

Don’t listen to Slacky the Sloucher or Giro the Germ will stage a jailbreak – public health cartoon by the Health & Cleanliness Council

Ye Gods! It’s the future of telecommunications – as seen through a cartoon modern lens from the 1950s

Bloody foreign cows coming over here and becoming our dinners

Dangerously addicted to boring old movies? This is a case for Dr BFI, as demonstrated in this 1970s animated promo

Do you know the golden rules of tea making? The Tea Bureau set out to put your cuppa straight in this progressively designed post-war cartoon

Black music and culture in the community

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

Mrs Elizabeth Baker unwinds after a busy day with a nice cup of drinking chocolate.

Bookbinding and a bagatelle: training for disabled people in the interwar years.

It's a hard life being an misunderstood genius - I really should get out more.

Student life and all that jazz - a visit to Liverpool University in1952.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.