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.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
The wedding of Jock Lyon and Lorna Duncan at Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, February 23rd 1928.
Family home life.
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.
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Construction of protection measures for the Gothic columns of the Palau de la Generalitat government building. Temporary walls under const...
Maria (Aliki Vougiouklaki) from the village of Pentagious falls in love with a young man (Andreas Barkoulis), but their love must overcome the obstacles set by a wealthy chief shepherd (Lambros Konsta...
A pan over the Mosque of Omar taken from the front of the Mosque of El Aska, followed by a view of the courtyard of the Mosque of Omar. Two Indian Infantry regiments, one of them probably 58th (Vaugha...
A portrait shot of, possibly, the chief US delegate Herbert Hoover. A group shot of the delegates, from the major Allies, descending a stairway into the Ministry grounds. Some delegates (none identifi...
Some children run until they reach a fair, where there is a carousel. There some children, mounted on their mounts, greet. The smallest of the newcomers rises from the shoulders of one who begins to t...
Propaganda film from Oslo Labour Party, with focus on housing policy, in connection with the local election in 1928.
Report from the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo in 1917.
The funeral of Count Walther von Hallwyl, 1921. The coffin is taken from Hallwyl House at Hamngatan 4 in Stockholm to St. Gertrude’s Church (‘the German Church’) in Stockholm Old Town. This sil...