E. V. H. Emmett Movies

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold...

A Secrets of Life short.

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.

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

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

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

This ultra-kitsch documentary goes behind the scenes at Murray's Cabaret Club, where Christine Keeler was later a showgirl.

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

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

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

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae. Urchins, lugworm, weaver-fish and crabs are the shy-but-elegant stars coaxed onto the screen (with the assistance of Millport’s...

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, about the nature and importance of their work - with the occasional dig at the expense of their colleagues. From Clydeside to the North East of...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells the story of the village's famous son, Rev Gilbert White, whose 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne is a classic of natural...

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...

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