Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

"Shows how the hedgerows are used by many animals and birds to conceal their homes."

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

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

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'.

A Secrets of Life short about the swan.

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

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 Secrets of Life short to which the BFI gave this description: "The film falls into two related sections: the first part shows, by fast motion......

A study of the Spear Thistle demonstrating the processes of fertilisation.

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

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...

This short ends with a warning that the birds helped "to preserve the leafy loveliness of our English countryside. We should therefore protect the...

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