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Presents the story of the ICI Alkali division, telling of the difficulties encountered by its founders…

Presents a brief account of the manufacture, and a fuller account of the packaging, distribution and…

Tells the story of malaria, the use of quinine and the research which led to the…

Portrays the quarrying of limestone and its conversion into quicklime and slaked lime. Shows the uses…

Depicts Britain's rich mineral wealth, how it was formed and how chemistry has enabled it…

Presents a brief account of the mining of rock-salt and the production of vacuum salt…

Portrays the extraction of salt by three methods, heating brine in open pans, mining rock salt…

Discusses the principles and practice of methods for sampling sodium nitrate, coal, limestone and penicillin. Includes…

Explains how trypanosomiasis is carried by the tsetse fly, its effects on cattle and control methods.

Presents in animation exoerythrocytic and erythrocytic schizogony and gametogony in man, and sporogony in the Anopheles…

Tells the story of one of imperial chemical Industries' top glassblowers.

Presents a survey of the methods which have been used to fight disease. Discusses the establishment…

Describes the need to apply salt as a source of sodium to get a good yield…

Illustrates the retarding effect of trypanosomiasis on the development of Africa and the results of the…

Uses animation to show normal conception and pregnancy in cows. Presents methods of testing bulls, demonstrates…

Discusses the spark as the cause of fire and explosion, creation of electrostatic charges, ignition of…

Discusses the needs of the soil in respect to nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Shows traditional and…

Portrays the manufacture of sodium hydroxide by the electrolysis of brine. Shows its use in the…

Portrays the manufacture of sodium carbonate by the ammonia-soda process. Shows its use in the…

Shows the technique of carrying out small-scale organic preparations using corks and ground-glass joints…

Shows the apparatus and techniques needed to carry out the small-scale preparation of chromyl chloride…

Presents a comparison of the traditional method of qualitative analysis with the semi-micro method in…

Presents a brief history of the discovery and development of polyvinyl chloride, and an account of…

Discusses the nature of silicones, the manufacture of silicones, the properties and uses of silicone fluids…

Presents a survey of the scope and activities of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd and its plan…

Presents a laboratory determination of the strength of a rubber-metal bond.

Illustrates the quarrying of limestone in Derbyshire and provides examples of its use for the manufacture…

Illustrates the manufacture of high-tension insulators.

Discusses the four natural fibers, the regeneration of cellulose, the development of synthetic fibers and the…

Deals with helping nature to heal (production of (cetavlon' antiseptic,) farmers' friend (the ICI country agricultural…

Deals with propagating roses, the ICI tie (history, design and nanufacture of gunpowder) and (goodbye to…

Deals with making bottles, the ICI magazine (editing and printing) and pottery for power (manufacture of…

Deals with 'PERSPEX' in the air (shaping aircraft canopies and ice without water (solid carbon dioxide.).

Deals with making cartons for soda crystals, locusts at Hawthorndale (breeding for research) and quarrying stone…

Deals with the protection of laid-up ships (by plastic sealing,) the glassblower and making tires.

Deals with calcium carbide (manufacture in the General Chemicals Division,) Paints Division worker and making lead…

Deals with the manufacture of zip fasteners.

Deals with more about 'ALKATHENE' (some little-known uses,) and modern salt production.

Deals with aluminium alloy (use in the manufacture of railway coaches,) Wilton Works (iMperial Chemical Industries…

Describes some causes of breakdown in paint films and ways to avoid them.

Tells the story of the inception and growth of the Billingham Division of ICI LTD, which…

Illustrates the manufacture of gunpowder by the traditional method at an establishment of ICI LTD which…

Analyzes the food content of dried grass for dairy cattle. Demonstrates the value of dried grass…

Discusses the four factors upon which good crops depend and the chemical and mechanical treatments which…

Describes safety precautions needed before entering a vessel or other enclosed space which may have contained…

Discusses the principles of distillation and the separation of solutions and liquid mixtures by laboratory and…

Illustrates the discovery and industrial development of 'MONASTRAL BLUE,' the first discovered phthalocyanine dye. Shows the…

Shows the production of color in British laboratories and factories and the practical and artistic uses…

Portrays the discovery of chlorine, laboratory preparation, its importance as a raw material in industry, its…

Animated drawings showing the balance sheet of Imperial Chemical Industries for 1950. Vivacious little “match stick…