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...

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

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

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 Secrets of Life short about the production of seeds.

A look at London's Soho in the mid-1950s.

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

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

The World's First Three Dimensional Advertising Film In Colour for Capstan cigarettes.

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

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

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

Part of a travelogue series, this films visits to Derry, the Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Mount Stewart and Belfast.

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

Mary Field and F Percy Smith create this whimsical look at the breeding habits and life cycle of frogs.

A Secrets of Life short about the sawfly.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

A light-hearted look at the history of the Sea Scouts and the many skills its members can acquire.

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett,...

"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...