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A short documentary study of hops, barley and yeast, and how they interact.

The life cycle of the rose aphid (Macrosiphum Roseus).

A Secrets of Nature short depicting methods employed by sea birds to care for and protect their young are contrasted with those used by various...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the sexual elements of pollenation in Dandelion, Globe thistle, Daisy, Cornflower, Carline...

Short documentary showing infusoria in a wine-glass.

The Strangler shows the life history of dodder, from its earliest stage as a seedling, to its parasitic stage feeding off its host.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the conflict between two colonies of wood ants joined by a piece of tiber laid across a...

The film shows the birth, life and reproduction of sweet peas, a familiar and well loved plant of British gardeners.

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

A Secrets of Nature short.

Short, anthropomorphically-inclined documentary showing the life-cycle of the common newt.

How To Improve Immigrants' English (1940s Instructional Film). Originally called '48 Paddington Street', British Pathe issued this as a cinema...

Short documentary film using innovative filming techniques to show how moulds grow and germinate.

A Secrets of Nature short, shot in a Zoo.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the life-cycle of the Barn Owl.

The poppy flower in its psychedelic glory.

Beneath the waves are mountains, plains and valleys full of life: here the conger, the octopus, and the wrasse hunt for food; shrimps and prawns act...

A British Instructional Films documentary set in Takoradi, in now modern Ghana.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A Secrets of Nature short.