E. V. H. Emmett Movies

On the search for weird and amazing creatures living on the seashores... This short movie played before The Thief of Bagdad (1940) during its...

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.

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

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...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

A light-hearted look at the history of the Sea Scouts and the many skills its members can acquire.

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

A Secrets of Life short about the Sparrow Hawk.

A Secrets of Life short about the production of seeds.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

A Secrets of Life short.

A documentary on the island off the French Riviera where 'bathing in the buff' isn't just practiced, it's highly encouraged!

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett,...

"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...

Mary Field and F Percy Smith create this whimsical look at the breeding habits and life cycle of frogs.