Brian Salt

Mong fu sek

Brian Salt

Nancy Kwan

Plot unknown.

The Equation X + X = 0

Robert Fairthorne, Brian Salt

“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of shape and motion” wrote Robert Fairthorne in Film Art in 1936. A mathematician and information scientist, Fairthorne saw aesthetic potential in an animation made as a teaching aid by Salt, and proposed this collaboration. (Tate.org.uk)

The Road of Health

Brian Salt

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.

Toto and the Poachers

Brian Salt

John Aloisi, Mpigano

Children's film shot in East Africa. Toto discovers that the elephants in the game park are being shot by ivory poachers.

A Letter from the Isle of Wight

Brian Salt

Two children on holiday go exploring, and after visiting Carisbrooke Castle are swept out to the Needles and are rescued by the lighthouse keepers.

Scotland for Fitness

Brian Salt

Sir Iain Colquhoun

One of a group of seven documentaries made for the 1938 Empire Exhibition under the supervision of John Grierson, the film was part of a campaign to improve the fitness of the Scots.