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 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.
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...
The Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
Amateur footage of women working in an office in Glasgow city centre, and general views at Faslane on Gare Loch, including the liner Aquitania.
The construction, positioning and operation of an oil rig in the Beryl Alpha oil field, 95 miles South East of the Shetland islands.
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.
Ginger and her friend Rosa was born on the same day at the same hospital and here lies the reason for their friendship which they cherish throughout their childhood. Politically, The Cold War is high ...
Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insu...
A survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
Film sponsored by Esso following the Scottish Rally of 1976. The rally begins in Ayrshire and takes in the Highlands. Interviews with various drivers at the roadside and after each stage is completed...
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....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
Promotional documentary about the Belgium-Luxembourg steel industry.
Report on the funeral of cardinal Mercier.
Visite de l'Exposition universelle de Bruxelles 1958 par un enfant d'un an. Philippe, âgé d'un an, "l'âge où l'on joue au ballon", visite seul l'exposition, que le commentaire appelle "la grande m...
Inauguration par la Sabena des premières lignes de transport international par hélicoptère. L'appareil, un Sikorski S 55 est arrivé par bateau des Etats-Unis à Anvers où il a été assemblé sur...
Reportage sur la mort du Roi Albert Ier, d'abord à Marche-les-Dames, puis à Bruxelles. Le film commence à Marche-les-Dames. On voit une vue d'ensemble, puis la gare. Des dizaines de voitures arrive...
IIW. URSS. German landing in the russian island Oesel.
Scenes of different cadets in the Valladolid's cavalry academy in 1918.
Daily live of a high mountain farmer during the year.