Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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.

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

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

A Secrets of Life short about the swan.

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

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 short.

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

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

A Secrets of Life documentary about the European Buzzard. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the Films...

Birds of the Farne Islands.

A Secrets of Life short about a raven.

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

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 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...

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

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