Von Gaumont-British Instructional Studios

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 look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

Documentary explaining how double bilateral variable area optical soundtracks are recorded onto film and played back in cinemas.

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

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

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

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera...

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

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

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances

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

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

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

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