Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
A tour through various exhibitions in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Women exercising during a keep-fit class.
The festival of the Braw Lads Gathering in the Borders town of Galashiels; the historic flag is presented and then carried on horseback through the town.
The people of Lochgelly at work and play, with footage of wash day and playing golf and bowls.
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
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 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...
A Laya Films documentary produced during the Spanish Civil War on the cork industry in the Baix Empordà area of Catalonia. It includes scenes depicting the traditional manufacturing process, which be...
The Last Supper Germany, 1933. On the day Adolf Hitler seizes power, the Jewish family Glickstein gathers for dinner in Berlin. Of course, political developments are a central topic of discussion - bu...
In Cabras, in the province of Cagliari (in Sardinia), there is a sort of salt lake connected to the sea that has been private property ever since the reign of King Phillip IV of Spain. After a l...
No Ashes, No Phoenix Documentary about the relegation struggle of basketball club Phoenix Hagen: For years the longstanding club from the Ruhr area had played in the second German Bundesliga. Then fin...
The 20th anniversary of pioneer palace in Kaunas. Pioneers bring the flag of pioneer palace in. Speeches of Vice President of the Executive Committee of Kaunas Narkevičiūtė, Director of the pioneer...
The film centers on a group of metropolitans, whose lives are influenced by their four-legged friends. Journalist Ella, for example, gets herself a cute mongrel called Bozer after her boyfriend Oscar ...
An african tourist from Nigeria, named Victor, is staying in Switzerland because of an illness for long time. The director of this documentary Ulrich Schweizer collects some memorys of people who were...