Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant anatomy. X-ray cineradiography illustrates the movement of the arm....

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances...

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, Mendeleeff's Periodic Table, and ending with ideas of t...

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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

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

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 team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evide...

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

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

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on he...

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet....

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary Field. The mesmerising time-lapse photography is offset by a jokey commentary voiced by EVH Emmett, the...

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

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population....

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

A Secrets of Life short....