When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
A tour of the Mavor and Coulson Bridgeton works, Glasgow,
Promotional film on behalf of Dunoon & Cowal Tourist Board in the mid-1970s, highlighting the attractions of the town and its catchment area.
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
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 ...
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...
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
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.
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...
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. A Catalan delegation visit Madrid to mark the first anniversary of the start of its defence. Images of the delegation at the Brihuega (Gua...
Laya films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. A Republican Navy Coastguard approaches a German destroyer, part of the Non-intervention Committee naval control patrol, estimated to be l...
An architect, who happens to be a widower (Arto Apartian), tells the coroner how his daughter died in the isolated village where they were living together with their housekeeper (Olga Tournaki). In th...
A girl from the countryside (Ntina Trianti) is impressed by the temptations of the city. Together with another girl (Niki Filopoulou) they get a job at the office of a man (Giannis Argyris) with a sus...
This is an adaptation of the play “The Girl of the Harbor” written by Dimitris Bogris. It is the melodramatic story of a pretty young woman who is abandoned by her beloved. She is then forced to b...
A short documentary about the theatrical performance of Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound”, which was presented at the Delphic Festivals. The first record of Angelos Sikelianos’ efforts to present ...
The paintings or photographs follow in quick succession. First, Franz Josef as a young man, dissolving to him as an old man. His villa at Bad-Ischl. Wilhelm II of Germany with Franz Josef. Franz Josef...
Two aircraft, described as "hydroaeroplanes", are on the water. The first, a monoplane, looks like an adaptation of the Morane-Saulnier H Type, the second a variant on the Farman M Type design. The mo...