Gaumont British Instructional Movies

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 Secrets of Life short.

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

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