Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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 how they swim with the use of their flippers and feet. Their mating and incubating of their eggs and ...

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances...

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness....

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...

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 -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's variou...

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 team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evide...

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

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