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...

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,...

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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

A Secrets of Life short about waterfowl.

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

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.

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

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

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

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...

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

A Secrets of Life short.

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

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