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A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the...

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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...

A Secrets of Life short.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold...

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

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

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.

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...

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...