A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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 tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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....
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
"The Old Man and the Bird" (2014/15)
Cyclical year in the life of the Taggart family as they take up residence at Marywell Farm. Their first experiences of country life.
A history of the Eastwood area in Glasgow, and footage of new community building developments in the early 1970s.
Compilation of scenes from Glasgow in the sixties including footage of the Gorbals, Paddy's Market, the Broomielaw the Alhambra Theatre and Glasgow Green.
Il documentario illustra alcune fasi della costruzione della diga del Vajont, mettendo particolarmente in luce la dimensione umana degli operai che stanno lavorando all’impresa. I lavoratori s...
Il film ripercorre la storia del famoso giornale per ragazzi il “Corriere dei Piccoli”, sulle cui pagine nel corso degli anni si riflettono i maggiori avvenimenti della storia italiana. Nato...
Roma, agosto 1960: tutta la città imbandierata attende l'inizio della 17a Olimpiade, Roma si presenta agli atleti e ai suoi stessi cittadini rinnovata grazie a nuovi impianti sportivi e nuove o...
Compilatie van actualiteitsfragmenten over het Belgisch koningshuis. 1. "FIANCAILLES PRINCIERES. LE PRINCE UMBERTO FIANCE DE LA PRINCESSE MARIE-JOSE ARRIVE A BRUXELLES". [23 t.e.m. 25 oktober 1929, cf...
Pathé newsitems showing a number of military subjects.
Pathé newsitems showing a number of military subjects.
War-time report, probably released in September-October 1919.
Unfinished report about a cycle race at Brussels's Palais des Sports.
01 – Mostra Viene inaugurato dal Prefetto di Milano e dal Presidente della Smau il 3° Salone Internazionale macchine e attrezzature per ufficio. All'interno della mostra è ricostruito un ant...