Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
An impressionistic account of the attractions that Aberdeen and Deeside offer the summer visitor.
(Reel 1) The arsenal entrance in Beresford Square, with the internal train taking the workers to various departments. Women and boys in the Tailors' Shop make gloves, felt "buttons" for 15-inch shells...
The city of Glasgow in the 1940s - its buildings, parks, museum, university and housing, showing the plans for major re-development of the city. Relates to issues proposed in the Bruce Report 1945 - a...
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...
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
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....
A visit ot the World fair of 1958, seen through the eyes of a child.
Il film inizia parlando di superstizione, con immagini di gatti neri, scale, saliere rovesciate ecc.; poi affronta magia bianca e nera (quest’ultima favorita dal consumo di LSD), sedute spirit...
Un Re ordinò che si facesse un bando per il quale avrebbe dato sua figlia in sposa a colui che avesse raccontato una bugia talmente grossa da non essere creduta. Accorsero tutti, ma nessuno riu...
Un classico del "diva film" con la coppia romantica Francesca Bertini e Gustavo Serena, basato su un romanzo parzialmente autobiografico di Alexandre Dumas figlio pubblicato nel 1866. Questa sto...
Bild: Landkarte mit Überschrift: "Tankschlacht bei Cambrai 1917"; eingezeichnet sind die Stoßrichtungen von deutschen Truppen der Engländer. 1. Zwischentitel: Der englische Durchbruchsversuch bei C...
Inhalt: 1. Zwischentitel: Am 1.9.1917 überschritten deutsche Truppen nach Bekämpfung des Feindes die Düna bei Uexküll. Bild: Deutsche Truppen überqueren auf einer Pontonbrücke am 01.09.1917 die ...
1.Teil Matrose Karl kommt auf Heimaturlaub und erzählt seinen Nachbarn Kriegserlebnisse. Einblendung: Soldat vom Küstenschutz macht Handgranate scharf; Bergung eines Verwundeten in den Dünen. Karl ...
1. Zwischentitel: Am 1.9.1917 überschritten deutsche Truppen nach Bekämpfung des Feindes die Düna bei Uexküll. Bild: Deutsche Truppen überqueren auf einer Pontonbrücke am 01.09.1917 die Düna. 2...