E. V. H. Emmett Movies

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

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

This film shows how and why the animals which inhabit a pond are dependent one on another for their survival. We see the minnow in pursuit of water...

A London travelogue.

A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made by EVH Emmett, whose sardonic tones...

The perky Cockneys are London sparrows, who star in this natural history film.

They Made the Land (1938) is a documentary showcasing how land in Scotland was reclaimed and cultivated for agriculture. It explores the challenges...

Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life....

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

This peek behind the scenes at Kew Gardens in the 1940s was part of the ever-eccentric Secrets of Life series. Arcadian images of tranquil greenery,...

Travelogue film looking at the sights to see in the Lowlands of Scotland.

This ultra-kitsch documentary goes behind the scenes at Murray's Cabaret Club, where Christine Keeler was later a showgirl.

Mary Field and F Percy Smith create this whimsical look at the breeding habits and life cycle of frogs.

Follows the life of a foal who enters the Grand National.

A look at travelling from London with Britannia Airline to Tokyo to discover Japan, and back via Hong Kong along with a look at the ocean liner...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Part of a travelogue series, this films visits to Derry, the Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Mount Stewart and Belfast.

Miniature railways, out-of-the-way single track lines and some of the great loco motives in use in Switzerland and Norway.

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon.

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.