Gaumont-British Instructional

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

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

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

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

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 dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

A Secrets of Life short.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

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

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.

A Secrets of Life short.