Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -...

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

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

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatur...

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...

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

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the jo...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist,...

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 h...

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

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

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

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The narrator...