Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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...

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

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

Documentary explaining how double bilateral variable area optical soundtracks are recorded onto film and played back in cinemas.

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

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

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

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to...