The Clue of the Missing Ape 1953
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.
How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.
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.
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
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.
Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.
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.
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)
Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.
A Secrets of Life short.
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.
Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.
A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.
A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.
King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see how they swim with the use of their flippers and feet. Their mating and incubating of their eggs and later, the hatching of them; the rearing of the young at various stages of their growth are also shown.
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.
Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.