Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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....

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...

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....

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 ...

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating the systematic and pulmonary circulation of the blood in the human body....

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

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'....

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...

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....

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

A Secrets of Life short....

A Secrets of Life short....

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth....

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

A Secrets of Life short....