Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
Amateur footage of a journey down the Clyde by steamer to Rothesay.
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...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Home movie of a family relaxing in a garden and on a visit to the beach.
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
A 'Cotter's' coach tour holiday to Austria.
Amateur footage of the Carmunnock May Day celebrations and a display event at a riding school.
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...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
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.
Study of seals and sea-lions at Calderpark Zoo, Glasgow. Concludes with section showing seals giving display in a circus.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
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...
Amateur footage of riding school gymkhanas and brief shots of an outdoor swimming pool.
A tour of the Mavor and Coulson Bridgeton works, Glasgow,
Bellany - A Life, Death and Resurrection explores the life and work of the extraordinary Scots painter, John Bellany.
The city of Glasgow in the 1940s - its buildings, parks, museum, university and housing, showing the plans for major re-development of the city. Relates to issues proposed in the Bruce Report 1945 - a...
A drama / documentary about the Civil Defence services during wartime Edinburgh, this film contains shots of the messenger Corps in action alerting all services during ARP - including the system used ...
A demonstration of the stages and processes in relining a picture.
Amateur footage of women working in an office in Glasgow city centre, and general views at Faslane on Gare Loch, including the liner Aquitania.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...