Richard Massingham
Birthday: 1898-01-31
Place of Birth: St George's Hanover Square, London, England, UK
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
What a Life!
Two men, worn down by their dismal daily existence, decide to take action....
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Handkerchief Drill
A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him....
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Facts and Fancies
Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal....
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Agricultural Holiday Camps
The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm....
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In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself
Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit ...
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Coughs and Sneezes
This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can...
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Influenza
Public health film, warning of the dangers of this airborne disease through sneezing....
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Health in Our Time
Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's Wor...
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Tell Me If It Hurts
A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingh...
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The Five-Inch Bather
A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of fi...
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Pool of Contentment
A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss....
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Watch Your Meters
Richard Massingham stars in an educational short about ways of conserving household energy....
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Pedestrian Crossing
Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road....
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Jet-Propelled Germs
Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what ...
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Warning to Travellers
Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking m...
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The Cure
Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure ...
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Turn the Key Softly
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....
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Will Any Gentleman...?
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without ...
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What's In a Number
National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham....
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The Silent Order
Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living ins...
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Playing in the Road
A road safety film on the dangers of playing in the roads of London in 1947....
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High Treason
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....
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