Gaumont British Instructional Movies

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

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 gra...

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary Fie...

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grai...

A documentary on summer farming activities.

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating the systematic and pulmonary circulation of the blood in the human body.

A Secrets of Life short.

The film tkes 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...

The film begins with threshing using a steam engine to drive the drum and elevator, described as "old fashioned". The film explains how the machine wo...

A Documentary on autumnal farming processes.

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 si...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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

As the orchards come alive with berries, cherries, apples and plums, a Kentish summer blossoms on film.

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

A Secrets of Life short.