Bush Christmas 1947
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.
Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.
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.
Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances
A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.
Birds of the Farne Islands.
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 Documentary on autumnal farming processes.
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
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!
Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.
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.
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.