Amateur footage of Townswomen's Guild events, including a coach trip to the Borders, music and theatrical productions and a fashion show.
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
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...
The film shows the tradional way to make Sami fur clothes.
Traditional fishing of eel in rivers in south-eastern Norway.
The film shows the traditional way to make a fishing net for cod.
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...
A comic little film sketch shot by German film pioneer Max Skladanowsky outside the current entrance to Skansen, 1896. The film’s title "Komische Begegnung im Tiergarten zu Stockholm" roughly transl...
The elusive dream of a big win on a V-65 accumulator brings a lot of people to the trotting tracks. Many of Henning Mankell’s stories have been dramatised, but this is the only film directed by the ...
Unauthorised strike in Kotka. Holiday village in Otaniemi for the staff of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank. Toivonniemi old people’s home in Inari. Finnish art on its way to Europe. Motorcycle race in A...
Sculptor Aarre Aaltonen (1889-1980) sculpting a memorial to the victims of the 1918 Civil War. Finnish soldiers kill a bear. Athletics competition organised by the sports club KIF at Helsinki Olympic...