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 survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
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...
Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, der sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Frage nähert, wie die Zukunft der Menschheit aussehen könnte. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die Frage, welche Hoffnungen...
An illustration of the various outdoor activities by youth groups at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms.
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.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
Earth’s history from its creation to the age of dinosaurs.
[Visit of Antonio Segni to Bologna] President of the Republic Antonio Segni visits Bologna: with Mayor Giuseppe Dozza in Piazza Maggiore, during a meeting with the municipal council, during an officia...
A scenic, in which we are introduced to the Island of Rhodes, a small island off the coast of Turkey. "The Bioscope", 14th November 1912. Film restored in collaboration with Nederlands Filmmuseu...
[Commemorating the deceased in Certosa Cemetery of Bologna, 1966] Bologna, 2 November 1966. Certosa Cemetery, the Monument to Fallen Partisans. The celebration of Holy Mass in front of soldiers. Mayor...
When the fog comes down, life in the Po Valley continues as usual: the farmers work in the fields, the workers go to the factory by bike, the cities are full of people in motion, fishermen throw...
Four newsreel items related to the First World War: 1. Revue of cadets of the American military school in West-Point. 2. Patrol boat from the German navy on an exploratory expedition. 3. Gymnastic e...
The first film adaptation of a classic romantic family drama that largely takes place during the First World War. An Irish-American woman wants to marry the son of the man who killed her uncle’s bet...
Bill Zuursnik works as a shop assistant in a department store. His wife wants him to go into the oil business. He convinces his wife that he is doing just that, while in fact he is working in the ling...