Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

  • 1947
    Bush Christmas

    Bush Christmas (1947)

    Bush Christmas

    5.51947HD

    In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains....

    Bush Christmas
  • 1935
    Shipyard

    Shipyard (1935)

    Shipyard

    5.31935HD

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

    Shipyard
  • 1955
    The Gold Express

    The Gold Express (1955)

    The Gold Express

    51955HD

    Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on he...

    The Gold Express
  • 1953
    The Clue of the Missing Ape

    The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)

    The Clue of the Missing Ape

    61953HD

    Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....

    The Clue of the Missing Ape
  • 1937
    A Test for Love

    A Test for Love (1937)

    A Test for Love

    4.51937HD

    In this dramatized warning to young women of the risks of venereal disease, Betty, a shop girl, pays a severe price for just one 'slip'....

    A Test for Love
  • 1947
    The Fishmonger

    The Fishmonger (1947)

    The Fishmonger

    81947HD

    About a Fishmonger and his working day with a trip to Billingsgate market....

    The Fishmonger
  • 1938
    What Men Live By

    What Men Live By (1938)

    What Men Live By

    81938HD

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

    What Men Live By
  • 1938
    The Road of Health

    The Road of Health (1938)

    The Road of Health

    51938HD

    The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in mag...

    The Road of Health
  • 1942
    The Life Cycle of the Maize

    The Life Cycle of the Maize (1942)

    The Life Cycle of the Maize

    01942HD

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

    The Life Cycle of the Maize
  • 1937
    The Gap

    The Gap (1937)

    The Gap

    01937HD

    A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

    The Gap
  • 1950
    Organisation of the Human Body

    Organisation of the Human Body (1950)

    Organisation of the Human Body

    01950HD

    A BAFTA special award nominated documentary that describes, in simple terms, the complete functioning of the human body - skeletal, muscular, vascular, excretory, endocrine and nervous systems...

    Organisation of the Human Body
  • 1934
    The Cathode Ray Oscillograph

    The Cathode Ray Oscillograph (1934)

    The Cathode Ray Oscillograph

    01934HD

    The history, development and uses of the oscillograph....

    The Cathode Ray Oscillograph
  • 1936
    Vision

    Vision (1936)

    Vision

    01936HD

    Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the sight are also illustrated....

    Vision
  • 1934
    How Talkies Talk

    How Talkies Talk (1934)

    How Talkies Talk

    01934HD

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

    How Talkies Talk
  • 1937
    The Story of a Disturbance

    The Story of a Disturbance (1937)

    The Story of a Disturbance

    01937HD

    The passage of a typical meteorological disturbance across the British Isles is explained by means of animated diagrams and rapid motion film of cloud formation....

    The Story of a Disturbance
  • 1936
    The Sea Urchin

    The Sea Urchin (1936)

    The Sea Urchin

    01936HD

    Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light....

    The Sea Urchin
  • 1943
    Garden Friends and Foes

    Garden Friends and Foes (1943)

    Garden Friends and Foes

    01943HD

    How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables....

    Garden Friends and Foes
  • 1935
    Farming in Autumn

    Farming in Autumn (1935)

    Farming in Autumn

    01935HD

    A Documentary on autumnal farming processes....

    Farming in Autumn
  • 1935
    Farming in Summer

    Farming in Summer (1935)

    Farming in Summer

    01935HD

    A documentary on summer farming activities....

    Farming in Summer
  • 1935
    Farming in Spring

    Farming in Spring (1935)

    Farming in Spring

    01935HD

    The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to graze. The ruins of St. Mary's Abbey are in the background. Manure from the yard is loaded onto a tumbr...

    Farming in Spring