Bif Movies

The poppy flower in its psychedelic glory.

An unedited and untitled film of the opening of the new British Instructional Film Studios by the Rt. Hon L.S. Amery. Invited guests are seen arriving...

Time lapse photography of the broad bean flower unfurling. Released in a silent (1929) and sound (1930) version.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the sexual elements of pollenation in Dandelion, Globe thistle, Daisy, Cornflower, Carline t...

These pictures show the marvellous industry of the Bee, the ingenuity it exercises in making its home, and the ordered programme of life that it appea...

The pictures show how the ailanthus silkmoth and the red admiral spin silk and weave a cocoon, and the way in which the change from caterpillar to mot...

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

The breeding cycle of the bittern, the cryptically plumaged relative of the herons.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the life-cycle of the Barn Owl.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

Short documentary film using innovative filming techniques to show how moulds grow and germinate.

Beneath the waves are mountains, plains and valleys full of life: here the conger, the octopus, and the wrasse hunt for food; shrimps and prawns act a...