Gaumont-British Instructional

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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)

A Secrets of Life short.

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.

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

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

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

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.