E. V. H. Emmett Movies

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of...

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

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,...

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

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.

A Secrets of Life short.

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

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome....

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.

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its...

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

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

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

"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...

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

A Secrets of Life short about waterfowl.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...