Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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...

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...