Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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...

Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to...

A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog.

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

Short nature documentary by Mary Field and F. Percy Smith.

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

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...

A wildlife film with a difference: it has A Message for any humans in the house. "The squirrel in the tree, the fox below, the birds, insects, all...

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.

A Secrets of Life documentary about bathing time at the zoo. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the...

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