Gaumont British Instructional Movies

"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...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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 about ants.

A Secrets of Life short about the production of seeds.

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

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

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.

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 Secrets of Life short about the sawfly.

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

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

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.