Gaumont-British Instructional

A Secrets of Life short.

Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.

A Secrets of Life documentary about bathing time at the zoo. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the Films Act as 883ft long (roughly 9 minutes if projected at 24 frames per second) It is a remake, or update, of the short "Bath Time at the Zoo" from Secrets of Nature.

A Secrets of Life short similar to the ealier work, Climbing Plants.

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

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

Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to publishers, but is turned down again and again. When war breaks out, he joins the army and fights in the trenches.

A Secrets of Life short about the swan.

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

A Secrets of Life short about life within the pools that form along rocky shores.

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen to their gossip", before demonstrating the bird’s flight in slow motion. We see a polecat feasting on gull eggs, and then a man collecting the eggs for human consumption, with the film telling us that they are considered a “delicacy” in London. Indeed, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, around 300,000 gull’s eggs were sold every year in Leadenhall Market in London during the 1930s, when London Visitors was made.

A Secrets of Life short, potentially the second in the series about the Lupin.

A Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Life short about a raven.

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was sponsored by the British Council and intended for an international audience.

"Shows how the hedgerows are used by many animals and birds to conceal their homes."

The first in the Secrets of Life series of short films.

A Secrets of Life short about ants.

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... the germination, growth-characteristic and fertilisation of the wild cabbage; the second part shows how the varied forms of cultivated cabbage - Savoys, Brussels sprouts, cauliflowers, sprouting broccoli - are related to the wild form, by illustrating the particular feature of the wild form that is present to an exaggerated degree in the cultivated variety... A very good example of how to deal with familiar gardening knowledge in an interesting manner, while at the same time using everyday facts to bring home the scientific lessons that can be drawn therefrom... Perhaps the most striking portions of the whole film are the sections showing which parts of the wild form have been greatly developed to produce the Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, or the Savoy cabbage."

A Secrets of Life short.