Gaumont-British Instructional

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

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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 her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evidence (namely shot 63) disappears under mysterious circumstances. As always in these films, the case can only be solved with the help of a few bright children.

A Secrets of Life short.

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant anatomy. X-ray cineradiography illustrates the movement of the arm.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

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

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

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 magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.

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

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, Mendeleeff's Periodic Table, and ending with ideas of the size of molecules and atoms then current. (Part 1 of 6)