"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied...

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.

A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

Underwater and microscopic photography by F. Percy Smith tell the story of a newt's life.

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A bug’s life laid bare in this charming cut-out animated tale.

"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 Secrets of Life short.

A meditative, immersive tribute to the astonishing work and achievements of naturalist, inventor and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith. Smith...

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...

An early British Kinemacolor short, in which delicate tones and shades of color are beautifully reproduced in examples of highly cultivated sweet...

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

A Secrets of Life short.

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Nature short.

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a...

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various...

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