Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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 tea...

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

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,...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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 jo...

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 look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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