From Gaumont-British Instructional Studios

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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...

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

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

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.

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

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

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

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

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.

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