This film describes the manufacture, construction and subsequent launch of a coal boring rig. Construction took place on the banks of the River Forth, near the Rail Bridge.
The video shows the first five minutes of the film.
Factual record of the construction of Dounreay Power Station on the Caithness coast, detailing the construction of spherical steel shell, vault and airlock for reactor, welding and concrete procedures...
A Scots-Canadian emigrant family on their first return visit to Scotland, where they see industrial improvement due to the Scottish Electric Grid.
The troops (described as in action, but quite clearly training) practise rushing forward from slit trench to slit trench, directed by umpires. They throw their smoke grenades into the opposing trenche...
A passenger ship brings the Russian contingent to the Piraeus, the port of Athens. French (or Russian ?) soldiers wearing sun helmets start their march from the Piraeus to Athens, establishing posts o...
The item shows normal life continuing in Paris. The markets trading in the open, uncongested and normal traffic flowing in the Place de l'Opéra, and people walking through the parks and boulevards an...
Max Minsky and Me Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a skinny thirteen-year-old Berlin school girl with a brain the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a brilliant career in astronomy ahead of her. But tha...