Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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...

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'.

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

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see...

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

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

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

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

About a Fishmonger and his working day with a trip to Billingsgate market.

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and...

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

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

The film begins with threshing using a steam engine to drive the drum and elevator, described as "old fashioned". The film explains how the machine...

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