Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant anatomy. X-ray cineradiography illustrates the movement of the arm....

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

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

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

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher...

A Secrets of Life short....

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet....