Gaumont British Instructional Movies

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The narrator...

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to gra...

About a Fishmonger and his working day with a trip to Billingsgate market.

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea)....

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

Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new pavi...

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

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

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grai...

Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the si...

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.

The passage of a typical meteorological disturbance across the British Isles is explained by means of animated diagrams and rapid motion film of cloud...

Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light.

As the orchards come alive with berries, cherries, apples and plums, a Kentish summer blossoms on film.

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

A Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Life short.