A Test for Love

A Test for Love 1937

4.50

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'.

1937

The Clue of the Missing Ape

The Clue of the Missing Ape 1953

6.00

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

1953

Bush Christmas

Bush Christmas 1947

5.70

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

1947

The Gold Express

The Gold Express 1955

5.00

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.

1955

Sally the Sparrow

Sally the Sparrow 1945

1

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

1945

The Gap

The Gap 1937

1

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

1937

What Men Live By

What Men Live By 1938

8.00

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

1938

The Stolen Plans

The Stolen Plans 1952

1

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

1952

Atomic Physics Part 1: The Atomic Theory

Atomic Physics Part 1: The Atomic Theory 1947

1

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)

1947

Shipyard

Shipyard 1935

5.10

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

1935

The Road of Health

The Road of Health 1938

5.00

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.

1938

The Life Cycle of the Maize

The Life Cycle of the Maize 1942

1

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

1942

Out with the Fishermen

Out with the Fishermen 1947

1

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

1947

The Case of the Missing Scene

The Case of the Missing Scene 1951

1

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.

1951

They Made the Land

They Made the Land 1938

1

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

1938