Gaumont British Instructional Movies

Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to...

A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog.

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 Secrets of Life short.

Short nature documentary by Mary Field and F. Percy Smith.

A Secrets of Life short.

Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.

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.

A Secrets of Life short.

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...

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

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...

Birds of the Farne Islands.

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

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

A wildlife film with a difference: it has A Message for any humans in the house. "The squirrel in the tree, the fox below, the birds, insects, all...

A Secrets of Life short of which the BFI gave this description: "The first part of the film is a speeded-up picture of germination and growth of the...

A Secrets of Life short similar to the ealier work, Climbing Plants.