Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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

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 dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, Mendeleeff's Periodic Table, and ending with ideas of t...

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'....

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

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

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

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...

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet....

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...

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