Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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...

They Made the Land (1938) is a documentary showcasing how land in Scotland was reclaimed and cultivated for agriculture. It explores the challenges...

A Secrets of Life short of which the BFI gave this description: "The first part of the film is a speeded-up picture of germination and growth of the...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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...

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 Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.