Gaumont-British Instructional

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

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

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!