Educational programme with Dr. K. John Dennis on the subject of Living and Growing. School children are in the studio to ask the doctor questions on the subject.
An educational programme examining the differences between male and females. The programme explains the reproductive system and explains the reasons for the differences.
The manufacture of SCWS cigarettes and tobacco at the Co-op's Shieldhall factory, Glasgow.
The processes involved in the manufacturing of wire rope at Brunton's Wire and Rope Works, Musselburgh.
An advert for Guthrie's mutton showing that only the best sheep are selected.
From sheep shearing in Australia to wool being spun and woven into cloth in Scottish tweed mills.
Plans for building new housing in Glasgow and encouraging skilled tradesmen to return to working at their old trades on building sites.
Bird life on St. Kilda, including shots of islanders snaring young fulmars, the St. Kildans' staple food.
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...
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 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...
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...
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....
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....
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
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...
Rudolf Schenker in "Scorpions - Forever and a Day" (2010-15)
A demonstration of the stages and processes in relining a picture.
Some events in the life of the Provost of Inverness including the Kirkin' of the Council, the Armistice Service of 1955, the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden and the opening of Bellfield P...
Videobotschaft zu "Hannah And Her Sisters" ("Hannah und Ihre Schwestern", USA 1986) anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Andreas Dresen im DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am ...
A warm-hearted little tale of a boy's determination to get an ice-cream, helped by his pet dog.
Peat cutting near Wick, winter scenes in Wick and shots of a family of travelling people on a country road. [See also ref. 2681A]
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...