Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evide...

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher...

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks"....

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God....

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film....

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank....

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains....

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was sponsored by the British Council and intended for an international audience....

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage....

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see how they swim with the use of their flippers and feet. Their mating and incubating of their eggs and ...

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on he...

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years....

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow....

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea....

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next....

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances...

Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light....

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet....