Hvor meget kan en chimpanse lære? Kan den kommunikere via tegnsprog? Ligner den mennesket så meget, at den kan begå sig i en social sammenhæng med komplicerede regler? Professor Herb Terrace fra C...
Offentligt og privat rum, såvel som interiør og eksteriør flyder sammen i Asta Meldal Lynges studie af lobbyen som arkitektonisk (og perceptuelt) fænomen. Lobbyen er et "mellemrum" og et transitst...
Emily og Martin Taylor levede et liv i overhalingsbanen, som ungt, smukt og velhavende par i New York, da Martin helt uventet blev anholdt og fængslet for insider handel. Emily mistede alt, hvad hun ...
Et drab i tjenesten kostede Billy Taggart karrieren, men han har stadig højt placerede beskyttere, selv om han må ernære sig som privatdetektiv, kun et skridt foran kreditorerne. Så han møder sel...
Løven Alex er hovedattraktionen i New Yorks zoologiske have og har det godt her sammen med sine venner, zebraen Marty, giraffen Melman og flodhesten Gloria.Marty vil til gengæld gerne udforske verde...
Efter at have besejret deres ærkefjende, Flænseren, keder de fire Turtles sig, og fordriver nu tiden i deres bolig i New Yorks kloakker med pizza, skateboards og lidt småjobs. Deres sensei, rotten ...
Michael Clayton er en in-house "fixer" hos Kenner, Bach & Ledeen - et af de største advokatfirmaer i New York. Med en fortid som offentlig anklager har han uden problemer klaret firmaets mere beskidt...
En undersøgelse af hvordan en mand bliver offer for sin egen isolation. Filmen skildrer det sidste døgn i den alkoholiske forfatter Alain Leroys liv, inden han begår selvmord. Alain, der tidligere ...
Sponsored by Glasgow Corporation Education Committee, this educational film introduces the chief tools used by the carpenter.
Tour of the Highlands and Islands in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Scenes include farming, fishing, mountain climbing, ships, and a brief shot of the 'talkies' being installed at Balmoral.
Overview of twenty one ante and post natal exercises through the combination of detailed intertitles and physical demonstration. Filming takes place at Rottenrow Maternity and Women's Hospital as wel...
Russian war drama about the love between a peasant girl and a Russian prince at the time of the Russian (February) Revolution in 1917. As a young peasant girl, Mary Warren (Geraldine Farrar) is being ...
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.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
Arena, New York Times ("Helmut Newton – The Bad and the Beautiful", 2019)
"The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Training film depicting new method of packaging shortbread fingers in Crawford's factory. Shows the increase of automated manufacturing processes.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
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...
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.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
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....