Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to...

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

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

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

The film begins with threshing using a steam engine to drive the drum and elevator, described as "old fashioned". The film explains how the machine...

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

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the...

Part of the Senior Biology series, 'Development of the Rabbit' is a study of the gestation period of rabbits - aided by diagrammatic, microscopic,...

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

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

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

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.

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

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

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

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