Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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...

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

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'.

About a Fishmonger and his working day with a trip to Billingsgate market.

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

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary that describes, in simple terms, the complete functioning of the human body - skeletal, muscular,...

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.

Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the...

Documentary explaining how double bilateral variable area optical soundtracks are recorded onto film and played back in cinemas.

The passage of a typical meteorological disturbance across the British Isles is explained by means of animated diagrams and rapid motion film of...

Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light.

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

A Documentary on autumnal farming processes.