Amateur footage of daily family life for European staff in and around a jute mill in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
A demonstration by the Civil Defence Corps, showing a basic rescue operation involving fire-fighting and searching for survivors beneath the rubble. Includes footage of resuscitation techniques now ...
George West and company on stage and at leisure during the summer revues in Aberdeen. [Incomplete] Pantomime scenes are from "Tammie Shanter" 1934/1935 season, at the Princess Theatre (now Citizens)...
Teenagers spending an evening at the Haparanda Cafe, Dundee. [Filmed by Luciano Soave, owner of the Haparanda Cafe - a popular haunt for local teenagers in the '60s. The Cafe has now been demolished...
Views of Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Pretoria and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The film also features a visit to an ostrich farm, a look at a Boer farmhouse and a trip to Victoria Falls.
A group leave Edinburgh to visit towns in northern France and Belgium. They attend a ceremony in Ypres under the Menin Gate Memorial. Includes shots of Talbot House, which is now open as a museum.
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...
A Christmas Party for former 'mill lassies' at Anchor Mill, Paisley. The women, now pensioners, are seen arriving at Kilnside House and settling down in a huge hall to a selection of tea and cakes fr...