A football match between Elgin City and an unidentified team, and the Inspection and Presentation of Colours of the Boys' Brigade (Inverness Battalion).
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....
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...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
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...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Lothian's coastal industries: fishing ports at Granton and Newhaven and the docks at Leith and Bo'ness. Its mining industries: shale mining by open-cast methods and a new pit at Bo'ness. Some of th...
The changing forces in the traditional borderland; in the fishing and textile industries, farming, forestry and housing.
The progress of the building of the Ravenscraig Steelworks in Lanarkshire over three years from 1954, from site clearance until the first steel is produced. Copyright: Corus Group Ltd.
Various shots of ships on slipways and dock scenes.
The opening ceremony of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, and footage of the removal of the station buildings from Wormit before their installation at Bo'ness.
A Pathescope travelogue film featuring scenes of the Lake District and Scottish lochs.
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
Promotional documentary on missionary work in Belgian Congo. Commissioned by the Priests of the Sacred Heart, who are trying to recruit new missionaries for the Belgian colony of Congo.
Interviews with prisoners liberated from Breendonk camp.
Promotiefilm voor de consumptie van meer brood. Aan de hand van 2 verhaallijnen over een journaliste die een reportage maakt over het brood en kinderen die les krijgen over hetzelfde thema, waartussen...
Promotiefilm voor de consumptie van meer brood. Aan de hand van 2 verhaallijnen over een journaliste die een reportage maakt over het brood en kinderen die les krijgen over hetzelfde thema, waartussen...
01 - Servizio speciale In un’affollata Piazza San Pietro a Roma si svolge l’Undicesimo congresso della Federazione Internazionale dei Pueri Cantores. Un folto corteo di bambini vestiti con u...
01 - Nel mondo Il Vietnam, finita la guerra, è un paese ridotto in povertà, letteralmente distrutto, tutto da ricostruire. I giovani vietnamiti hanno voglia di ricominciare a vivere e ne vedia...
Report on the 30 day visit of a group of Congolese officials to Belgium in 1953.
Unfinished version of the fictionalised documentary by Francis Martens set in Brussels' Marolles neighbourhood.