Empire Marketing Board

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.

Farming techniques and modern methods bring new crops to market.

A documentary taking a journey down the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Shellhaven refinery near London.

A celebration of the importance of the British countryside.

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a traditional picture of Britain as is interrupted by industrial stacks billowing smoke. A dramatic illustration of how the young British documentary movement grappled with the influence of the genre’s founding father, Flaherty's ethos was essentially that of a 19th-century conservative individualist, attracted to the elemental extremes of nature and suspicious of the mechanisation of the modern world.

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

Propaganda - advertising. Animated titles spelling out the message - "Australian wines:- In the sunlit vineyards of Australia grow luscious grapes for wines, pressed and bottled into sweet, dry, or sparkling vintages. Stock your cellar with Australian wines because they are cheaper and best".

A short, silent documentary by Robert J. Flaherty about pottery in England.

An intricate and richly detailed observation of every step in the making of an aircraft engine.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

Early documentary, slung together from footage depicting the first invasion of North America by Europeans, designed to show industrial technology's role in the development of North America. Used footage from the 1923 feature "The Covered Wagon" as though it were history. Produced by the Empire Marketing Board, which was established by the Conservative Party in 1926 to promote inter-imperial trade.

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings.

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning.