Gaumont British Instructional Movies

Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to...

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

A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog.

Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

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

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years.

A BAFTA nominated documentary investigating the development of the castle.

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

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

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...

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

A Secrets of Life short about a raven.

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

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

Short nature documentary by Mary Field and F. Percy Smith.

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'.

A wildlife film with a difference: it has A Message for any humans in the house. "The squirrel in the tree, the fox below, the birds, insects, all...

This peek behind the scenes at Kew Gardens in the 1940s was part of the ever-eccentric Secrets of Life series. Arcadian images of tranquil greenery,...