Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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

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

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher...

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 joints of the human skeleton. It uses live action and animated medical illustrations as well as an act...

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

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

A documentary on summer farming activities....

A documentary on the English language and it's origins....

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

A Secrets of Life short....