Gaumont British Instructional Movies

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the...

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

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

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

The film tkes 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...

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

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...

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

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

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

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

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.

How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.

A Secrets of Life short.

"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...

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

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...