Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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

A Secrets of Life short....

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...

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 "listen to their gossip", before demonstrating the bird’s flight in slow motion. We see a polecat feasting ...

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort....

This short ends with a warning that the birds helped "to preserve the leafy loveliness of our English countryside. We should therefore protect the warblers."...

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 sponsored by the British Council and intended for an international audience....

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 joints of the human skeleton. It uses live action and animated medical illustrations as well as an act...

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo....

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

A Secrets of Life short....

Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new pavilion is built!...

"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 Field. The mesmerising time-lapse photography is offset by a jokey commentary voiced by EVH Emmett, the...

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...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells the story of the village's famous son, Rev Gilbert White, whose 1789 book The Natural History and An...

A Documentary on autumnal farming processes....

A Secrets of Life short....

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