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- In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
- A young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by Margot Fonteyn.
- Relive the Christmas story in this fascinating 3D animation spectacular. See the story unfold as Mary and Joseph are visited by angels while Herod plots to erase any competition to his throne. The birth of baby Jesus in that Bethlehem stable changed the world, and to this very day, men, women and children kneel to worship the One who is called the Prince of Peace. Recommended for children ages 3 to 10.
- Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by lowlifes when the crate is put ashore.
- 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.
- Two youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.
- Short instructional film about two city children (from London) who go and stay at their uncle's farm in the country. The film was made in order to instruct children the proper way of behaving in the country.
- The robbery of gold is planned from a train which also carries several eccentric passengers, including two elderly ladies who write lurid thrillers under a pseudonym.
- Young Peter Joe decides to go to Southampton to sea, this is the story of his land voyage there with many adventures for him and his friends along the way.
- A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made by EVH Emmett, whose sardonic tones graced many an educational film in the 1930s and 40s. Jumping from the Bronze Age to Ancient Egypt to the dicey barbers of Victorian England (cue Tod Slaughter hamming it up in "Britain's most fruity drama", Sweeney Todd), the film follows the development and mass production of King Camp Gillette's 1890s invention.
- A biological film of the smooth newt, its history from egg, through tadpole stage, to fully developed three-year-old next returning to the pond in spring to breed.
- Fantasy about a little boy with a passion for trains who dreams about driving the express from Glasgow to London.
- The importance of the railway network to the shipbuilding industry in Britain.
- 'A film of a Cornish fishing village. Newlyn Bay, sheltered by headlands, is geographically an ideal place for a fishing community. The houses, sturdily built of Cornish stone, are grouped round the harbour and church. Fishermen go to sea in all weathers. Shots included deep-sea herring fishing in the early autumn.'
- 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!
- Explains how television works, everything from the cameras to the tubes and signals.
- E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.
- Wartime public information film about rationing with a fun mixture of natural history.
- Food production in wartime Scotland.
- Young boys Donnie and Duncan hop on their bicycles and spend the day together. After stopping by the playground, it's off to the pool where they watch a swim meet before hopping in the water. Back home, they share ice cream.