Movies: Gaumont British Instructional
- 1947
Bush Christmas (1947)
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In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains....
- 1938
Kings in Exile (1938)
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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 how they swim with the use of their flippers and feet. Their mating and incubating of their eggs and ...
- 1953
The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)
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Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....
- 1942
Market Town (1942)
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This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was sponsored by the British Council and intended for an international audience....
- 1955
The Gold Express (1955)
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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...
- 1951
Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard (1951)
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A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank....
- 1948
Circulation (1948)
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A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating the systematic and pulmonary circulation of the blood in the human body....
- 1935
Shipyard (1935)
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Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness....
- 1951
Human skeleton, muscles, movement and posture - Part II (1951)
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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...
- 1937
Heredity in Man (1937)
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A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next....
- 1942
The Life Cycle of the Maize (1942)
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Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage....
- 1951
The Case of the Missing Scene (1951)
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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...
- 1947
Out with the Fishermen (1947)
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Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea....
- 1942
Overlooked (1942)
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A Secrets of Life short....
- 1934
The Cathode Ray Oscillograph (1934)
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The history, development and uses of the oscillograph....
- 1947
The Little Ballerina (1947)
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Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances...
- 1938
What Men Live By (1938)
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A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God....
- 1937
A Test for Love (1937)
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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'....
- 1943
History of the English Language (1943)
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A documentary on the English language and it's origins....
- 1943
Development of the English Town (1943)
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A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's variou...