Gaumont British Instructional Movies

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'.

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years.

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

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

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see h...

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

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

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea)....

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

Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new pavi...

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 -...

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The narrator...

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the jo...

Birds of the Farne Islands.

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 spon...

A Secrets of Life short.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

A Secrets of Life short.