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Browse 125 movies from Gaumont-British Instructional
A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.
Mar 1938
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
Jul 1947
A study of the Spear Thistle demonstrating the processes of fertilisation.
Jan 1935
Jan 1947
A Secrets of Life short.
Jan 1942
Short nature documentary by Mary Field and F. Percy Smith.
Jun 1936
A Secrets of Life short about ants.
Aug 1936
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.
A Secrets of Life short about the swan.
Jan 1938
Mar 1935
Birds of the Farne Islands.
Jan 1936
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.
Feb 1935
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 dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Sep 1937
A Secrets of Life short about a raven.
Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.
Sep 1949
Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years.
Feb 1941
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
Jan 1937
Jan 1949
A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.
Apr 1950