Books and teaching packs
- All Pals Together: the Story of Children's Cinema. Terry Staples, Edinburgh University Press 1997
- Entertaining the Nation education pack for KS2 History curriculum.
- Look Again! A Teaching guide to using film and television with 3-11 year olds.
- Starting Stories: A Resource for KS 1 Literacy (video compilation and teaching guide).
- Story Shorts: A Resource for KS 2 Literacy (video compilation and teaching guide).
Audio visual materials
- Early Cinema - Primitives and Pioneers Vols 1 + 11 (bfi Video Publishing)
- British Pathe - A Year to Remember series containing newsreel footage from 1920s-1970. See also British Pathe.
- Tom's Ride - first specially commissioned children's film,1944 (Copyright View Tech Film & Video)
- Odeon Club Song, 1943 (Copyright Odeon Cinemas Limited, Rank Leisure Division)
Videos and DVDs
Various commercially available videos/dvds, can give the children some idea of the films enjoyed in the past, such as:
- Flash Gordon
- Laurel and Hardy
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Calamity Jane (1953)
- Courage of Lassie (1946)
- Hue and Cry (1946)
- Kidnapped (1938)
