Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

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

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

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold...

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

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...

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

In this dramatized warning to young women of the risks of venereal disease, Betty, a shop girl, pays a severe price for just one 'slip'.

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

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

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.