Amateur home movie of a family at home - children playing in a garden, on the beach and at a play-park.
Amateur footage of a steamer trip to Rothesay on board the St. Columba.
Amateur footage of a family holiday on Arran, visiting Kildonan and Blackwaterfoot.
Amateur footage of equestrian displays at riding schools.
Glasgow scenes including shots of tenements, the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Green, St. Enoch's Station, Sauchiehall Street, Paddy's Market, the University, Templeton's carpet factory and Kelvingrove Ar...
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 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 ...
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...
Events at the 1950 Crieff Highland Gathering, the first held after 1939.
A comedic tale set in the garden of the Thoms' family house, on a summer's day. A group of boys playing in the garden get into trouble with a pernickety neighbour but later redeem themselves by spott...
An illustration of the historical development of William Halley & Sons Limited, jute manufacturers.
A demonstration of how jute is manufactured in the Halley and Sons' Wallace Craigie Works in Dundee. The film follows the processes of batching, carding, spinning, weaving, up to the finished product...
Scenes on the island of Barra; Castlebay and the MacNeil's Kisimul Castle, the Bay of Traigh Vais, shell gathering and crofting.
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...
Children prepare for Christmas around their house and the two brothers look after their mischievous baby sister.
The Royal Highland Show in Dundee, attended by the Queen. There is a livestock display, highland dancing and games.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.