Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

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

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to...

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

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

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...

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

Part of the Senior Biology series, 'Development of the Rabbit' is a study of the gestation period of rabbits - aided by diagrammatic, microscopic,...

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

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...

The film begins with threshing using a steam engine to drive the drum and elevator, described as "old fashioned". The film explains how the machine...

A Secrets of Life short.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

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

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