Gaumont-British Instructional

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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.

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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'.