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...
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...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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...
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.
Amateur home movies, including family visits, Christmas scenes, days out and family pets.
American Ross Allen Baker and his family spent the years 1937/1938 in Vienna. Along with private footage of the family in their free time, the film shows various street scenes from the tim...
Amateur home movie footage of family events, including home visits, trips to the seaside and riding stables.
Family home life.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A family holiday around Firth of Clyde and beyond on various boats. Includes a trip to Belfast and a trip 'Doon The Watter' on the Waverley.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
Family Christmas from the mid 1960s.
Amateur footage of a family moving house, and family and friends posing for photographs in a garden.
Amateur footage of the Irvine family in India, including shots of a British military wedding and parade.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
Amateur family footage of various locations, including Ayr, Rothesay, the Dunoon area and Gare Loch.
Home movie of a family relaxing in a garden and on a visit to the beach.
Amateur footage of a family holiday on Arran, visiting Kildonan and Blackwaterfoot.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.