E. V. H. Emmett Movies

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

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

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

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

On the search for weird and amazing creatures living on the seashores... This short movie played before The Thief of Bagdad (1940) during its...

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

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

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

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

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

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

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.

A Secrets of Life short.

"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...

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

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

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

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...

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