Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

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

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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...

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

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

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'.

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

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold...

A Secrets of Life short.

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

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