Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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...

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

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...

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'.

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

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

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

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...