This is a film regarding a fictional character and how he became interested in playing bowls. Opening with the central character as a boy playing bowls by chance, the scene changes to show the charac...
The film shows examples of various sports. Firstly, flat racing, typified by the Epsom Derby, showing the horses coming round the final turn to the finish, and the winner's enclosure after the race. N...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
Lord and Lady Overtoun visit a Bioscope booth. [Probably John Campbell White, the 1st Baron Overtoun, and his wife Grace].
Amateur footage of Glasgow families on holiday in Wigtownshire and a sports event at Port William.
The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
Bishop Ordination in St. Gallen on 16.10.1938, all sequences show different people from the church, i.e. Cardinal Pacelli / later Pius XII, walking down a forecourt, that is bordered by other guests.
Consisting mainly of intertitles, the images show something of the animal world in one of the worlds earliest Nationalparks (1914)
Biography of politician Lodewijk De Raet (1870 - 1914).
Report shot in 1977 focused on the coastal town of Calvia, one of the most important tourism centres in Spain. The leitmotif is the postcards that two tourists who are on holiday in Mallorca send to t...
Short fictional film about travelling by train.
A Paris. La croix de Buchenwald. Une messe et une communion ont lieu sur l'esplanade du trocadéro à Paris autour de la croix qui partira sur les lieux du camp de la mort de Buchenwald. Des milliers ...
Compilation of short News reports concerning: - a shouting contest - a man jumping from a driving car onto a flying plane. - thousands of Hindus travelling to the Ganges River. - Geese flocks on a far...
Le film trace un état de la situation politique, économique et sociale du Ruanda-Urundi en 1949 en abordant successivement tous les aspects de la colonisation et les progrès qu'elle a entraînés. ...