Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

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

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

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...

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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

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 study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating the systematic and pulmonary circulation of the blood in the human body....

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher...

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

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

A Documentary on autumnal farming processes....