E. V. H. Emmett Movies

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

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

Follows the life of a foal who enters the Grand National.

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

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,...

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,...

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

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...

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 Secrets of Life short.

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

A Secrets of Life short about the Sparrow Hawk.

A look at the Grand National horse race at held at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, where we see the winning horse, jockey and trainer.

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...

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...

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

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

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...

A look at travelling from London with Britannia Airline to Tokyo to discover Japan, and back via Hong Kong along with a look at the ocean liner...