Gaumont-British Instructional

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

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

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 -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!

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.

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

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 joints of the human skeleton. It uses live action and animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant physical processes such as respiration.

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)