An amateur film shot in the mid 1980s showing various leisure activities in and around the Perthshire town of Crieff including; water sports, pony trekking, BMX bikes, raft river racing, and radio con...
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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...
Behind the scenes footage of activities at the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers' weekend at Crieff Hydro.
Amateur footage of the 13th UNICA Congress held in Glasgow in 1951, with visits to Ayr and Crieff, and ciné club members filming.
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
"Above and Below" (2012-14)
"Above and Below" (2012-14)
"Above and Below" (2012-14)
Playground exhibition at Stockmann department store in Helsinki. Eyewear with a Helsinki motif manufactured in Germany. The Helsinki School of Economics’ Student Union rallies for the Finnish Red Cr...
Visitors from Swedish friendship cities arrive at the Olympic Quay in Helsinki. The Dutch ambassador presents his credentials to the President of the Republic. The Turkish ambassador presents his cred...
President Kekkonen travels to Britain with his wife on 8–13 May 1961; leaving from Seutula Airport. Arrival at Victoria Station. Visit to Finland House. Boat trip on the Thames. Visit to the Tower. ...
‘USA Today’ exhibition opens at the Exhibition Hall in Helsinki. Inauguration of Karuna Church. Aviation show in Tampere. Footage from the Gallen-Kallela Museum in Tarvaspää. Car ferry Skandia c...
Scout parade at the Senate Square in Helsinki. Students’ May Day procession from the Old Student House to Ullanlinnanmäki hill. May Day celebration of the Social Democratic Party at Mäntymäki in ...
UN Secretary-General U Thant in Finland: welcoming ceremony at Helsinki Seutula Airport. Visiting Prime Minister Karjalainen. Visiting the Parliament Building. In Tapiola, Espoo. Distinguished paediat...
The communist newspaper L'Unità, refounded after the war (it was banned during the Fascist regime), is distributed by volunteers from the Communist Party.
Documentary dedicated to the artillery assigned to the Italian troops in Africa, shot by Luca Comerio in 1912, while the war in Libya was underway. The video is a copy from the film print preserved in...