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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A Secrets of Life short.

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,...

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.

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

A Secrets of Life short.