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...
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.
Training film depicting new method of packaging shortbread fingers in Crawford's factory. Shows the increase of automated manufacturing processes.
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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....
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....
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...
Der New Yorker Musiker Robert scheint so etwas wie eine Pechsträhne zu haben: Künstlerisch steckt er in einer Schaffenskrise und materiell sieht es so finster aus, dass er sogar aus seiner Wohnung g...
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
Amateur footage of people in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, traffic on Great Western Road and street scenes in the city.
En fortælling om et venskab mellem to usædvanlige pennevenner: Mary, en ensom, kraftig 8-årig pige som bor i en forstad til Melbourne og Max, en 44-årig jødisk mand med Aspergers syndrom fra New ...
Comprehensive history of the burgh of Ayr, including footage of buildings of historical interest.
Borgerne i den lille by Hyland i New England er rystede, da en ung pige bliver brutalt myrdet og efterladt i sneen. Og for Carolyn og Ben Ryan er det en katastrofe. Den myrdede pige var deres søn Jac...
Fire betjente er døde i et skudopgør i New York, og det ligner et baghold. Hele politistyrken er i oprør og der er hævn i luften. Med en politimorder løs og hele styrkens rygte og stand på spil,...
Training film depicting new method of packaging shortbread fingers in Crawford's factory. Shows the increase of automated manufacturing processes.