Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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...

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

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen to their gossip", before demonstrating the bird’s flight in slow motion. We see a polecat feasting ...

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

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

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....

A Secrets of Life short....

A BAFTA nominated documentary investigating the development of the castle....

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo....

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in mag...

Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new pavilion is built!...

This short ends with a warning that the birds helped "to preserve the leafy loveliness of our English countryside. We should therefore protect the warblers."...

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'....

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae. Urchins, lugworm, weaver-fish and crabs are the shy-but-elegant stars coaxed onto t...

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

"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 Field. The mesmerising time-lapse photography is offset by a jokey commentary voiced by EVH Emmett, the...

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

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grains (shown much magnified), which are transferred by insects to the stigmas for fertilization of seed...

Explains how television works, everything from the cameras to the tubes and signals....