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An educational film about how food is distributed and sold in markets in London in the late 1940s.

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

A Secrets of Life short.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

A Secrets of Life short.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

A Secrets of Life short.

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...

We learn of the beginnings of the English railways and how they were devised in the 1800s.

Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light.

A Secrets of Life short.

A British documentary about the coastal villages at war time.

The passage of a typical meteorological disturbance across the British Isles is explained by means of animated diagrams and rapid motion film of...

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

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'.

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new...

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

A documentary on summer farming activities.

The film begins with threshing using a steam engine to drive the drum and elevator, described as "old fashioned". The film explains how the machine...