Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

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

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

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

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

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.

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

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...

We learn of the beginnings of the English railways and how they were devised in the 1800s.

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

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

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...

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'.

"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...