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....
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....
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.