Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

Birds of the Farne Islands.

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...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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...

A Secrets of Life short.

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

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

"Shows how the hedgerows are used by many animals and birds to conceal their homes."

A Secrets of Life short to which the BFI gave this description: "The film falls into two related sections: the first part shows, by fast motion......

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

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

A Secrets of Life short similar to the ealier work, Climbing Plants.

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was...

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,...