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....
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
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.
Compilation of short News reports concerning: - a shouting contest - a man jumping from a driving car onto a flying plane. - thousands of Hindus travelling to the Ganges River. - Geese flocks on a far...
Documentario sul corpo dei bersaglieri. Nel cortile davanti a una camerata, un trombettiere dà il segnale, dalle finestre i bersaglieri si calano con funi e si assembrano nel cortile. Viene dis...
A filmmaker (Vasilis Langos) follows a girl (Katia Gerou) around the Peloponnese, trying to find an agent for his latest movie, for which he had borrowed money he cannot pay back.
A couple in crisis comes closer when the woman (who suspecting her husband of adultery) decides to work as a dancer in a nightclub. When he sees her dancing, he desires her again.
Frammento di uno dei diversi documentari che Comerio girò durante la guerra Italo-Turca (1911-1912). Si tratta dell'unico combattimento di un certa rilevanza nella zona di Bengasi avvenuto nell'oasi ...
Three hours before leaving for his holiday, Björn discovers that his passport has expired. He races to the authorities where an odyssey begins that turns his life completely upside down.
Company newsreel (Phillips Petroleum Company Norway) : senior vice president Bill Thompson on investment : Ekofisk tank wall : testing the Chinook helicopter
Company newsreel (Phillips Petroleum Company Norway) : interview with chief executive Knut Åm : safety exercise : artworks in the Tananger office buildings : golf tournament etc.