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Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to...
Two Minutes
A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog.
Sports Day
Record of a voyage on the four-masted barque "Passat" from Sweden to Capetown.
Proud Canvas
Circus Boy
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
Bush Christmas
A Secrets of Life short about the swan.
Swan Song
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
The Clue of the Missing Ape
The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...
London Visitors
A Secrets of Life short.
Living Lies
A study of the Spear Thistle demonstrating the processes of fertilisation.
Thistledown
"Shows how the hedgerows are used by many animals and birds to conceal their homes."
Hedgerows
A Secrets of Life documentary about the European Buzzard. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the Films...
Baby on the Rocks
Birds of the Farne Islands.
Bird Sanctuary
A Secrets of Life short about a raven.
Ravenous Roger
Short nature documentary by Mary Field and F. Percy Smith.
Lupins
This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...
Atomic Physics Part 1: The Atomic Theory
A Secrets of Life documentary about bathing time at the zoo. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the...
Mixed Bathing
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 Test for Love
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
Heredity in Man
This short ends with a warning that the birds helped "to preserve the leafy loveliness of our English countryside. We should therefore protect the...
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