An amateur film shot in the mid 1980s showing various leisure activities in and around the Perthshire town of Crieff including; water sports, pony trekking, BMX bikes, raft river racing, and radio con...
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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...
Behind the scenes footage of activities at the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers' weekend at Crieff Hydro.
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.
Amateur footage of the 13th UNICA Congress held in Glasgow in 1951, with visits to Ayr and Crieff, and ciné club members filming.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
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.
Shopping in Glasgow. Fruit and vegetables being selected for delivery to local stores.
A survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
The Gathering at Glenfinnan in the Highlands to mark the 200th anniversary of raising the standard of James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
Nach einer Umweltkatastrophe breitet sich der (fiktive) bolivianische Salzsee Diablo Blanco immer weiter aus und bedroht die Lebensräume von Menschen und Tieren. Im Auftrag der Vereinten Nationen sol...
The Polytech Choir returns to Helsinki Malmi Airport. Nobel laureate Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) in Helsinki (Helsinki Malmi Airport, Savoy restaurant). Christmas greeting. Hurricane in the USA. Aircraft...
British WWI submarines raised to the surface in the Gulf of Finland. Ergot cultivation experiment of Leiras, a pharmaceutical company. Boy orchestra from Rauma in Helsinki. Handicraft exhibition of Ma...
81st Ceremonial Conferment of the University of Helsinki Department of Philosophy (Senate Square, Lutheran Cathedral, boat excursion). The foundation stone for Saarijärvi secondary school is laid. Va...
Opening ceremony of the Ski World Championships in Lahti. The Finnish Ski Federation celebrates its 50th anniversary. Helicopter flight in the Soviet Union (foreign material). American film producer M...
The Spring Expo opens in Helsinki. The Rhine floods (foreign material). New margarine factory in Raisio. Hair stylist Egan Brügge from Hamburg exhibits new hair trends. Delnoy wins the mile run at an...
The eastern border opens for tourist traffic at Vaalimaa; present day Vyborg. The 1958 general elections. The Aldenburg, a reefer ship, is launched from Pansio Shipyard. The Mercator, a Belgian traini...
Memorial service at the war graves in Helsinki to commemorate those who fell in the Winter War. University of Helsinki students walk through Helsinki from Hietaniemi cemetery to the Senate Square in a...
The Israeli ambassador presents his credentials to the President of the Republic. The Great Finnish Fair (Suomen Suurmessut) opening on Töölö ball field. Posters from the Finlandia poster competiti...