Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
Japan Desk Scotland’s third documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking at the aftermath in the area around Okuma Town, the remaining effects of radioactive contamination, and ...
Japan Desk Scotland’s eighth documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking back at the work to create a radiation map of the surrounding area and the establishment of the Institu...
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
Overview of journey from Glasgow city centre to Rothesay and Largs on passenger steamer circa 1935.
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
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...
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...
Christobal Farais (second from left), Rifka Lodeizen in "Messi and Maud" (2017)
Volker Michalowski, Veronica Ferres, Gael García Bernal (in the front from left to right) in "Salt and Fire" (2015/16)
Irja von Bernstorff (second from the right), Sangay Rinchen (on the right) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
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.
The French-made gun (no identification, but possibly a 155mm naval gun) rests in its emplacement with its breech-block removed. The caption says it was destroyed in the Austrian attack which took Belg...
The soldiers enter the Guildhall, followed by the Lord Mayor, who leaves his coach. Some of the soldiers improvise a Highland fling for the camera.
I. Mrs C S Peel, Director of the Women's Sectio...
A British soldier walks through a forest of long, hooked metal poles set in concrete, probably as a form of reinforcement. A barbed wire entanglement more than fifty metres deep. An RAMC man emerges f...
A cartographic problem that arose when the German-German border was to be erased. "The Border" provides an interesting explanation of an ancient German problem; which, although it has long since been ...
Company newsreel (Phillips Petroleum Company Norway) : helicopter accident in the British sector : managing the Danish sector from Norway: company head quarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma : interview ...
The handcrafting of herring barrels was a venerable skill that eventually gave way to industrial production methods. In this film, however, cooper Ole Vaka from Haugesund shows us how to make a barrel...
Air show in Helsinki marking the 30th anniversary of the Finnish Aeronautical Association. Toy consignment from the USA. Tourist bus Pääsky (‘Swallow’). Forestry students’ rally. Ounasvaara Sk...
Inter-provincial swimming competition at the Swimming Stadium in Helsinki. Girl Guides from abroad at an international camp in Kolho. Motoring hotel of the Finnish Automobile Club in Tammela. Celebrat...