E. V. H. Emmett Movies

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the...

Travelogue film looking at the sights to see in the Lowlands of Scotland.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

The perky Cockneys are London sparrows, who star in this natural history film.

The best of the action from over 30 years of FA Cup finals at Wembley Stadium.

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...

They Made the Land (1938) is a documentary showcasing how land in Scotland was reclaimed and cultivated for agriculture. It explores the challenges...

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

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon.

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

A Technicolor study of English pottery, the skill of the potter, and the modern mechanised factories of Wedgwood (British Council).

A wildlife film with a difference: it has A Message for any humans in the house. "The squirrel in the tree, the fox below, the birds, insects, all...

Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England].

Hitchcock went the wrong way! Head south by southwest with this travelogue from Bath to Cornwall.

This peek behind the scenes at Kew Gardens in the 1940s was part of the ever-eccentric Secrets of Life series. Arcadian images of tranquil greenery,...

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life....

This film shows how and why the animals which inhabit a pond are dependent one on another for their survival. We see the minnow in pursuit of water...