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...
A trip down the Clyde by passenger steamer to Millport including footage of the Cowal Games, Dunoon, Rothesay and the Isle of Arran.
Following the River Clyde from its upper reaches down to the Firth.
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...
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...
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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.
The Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
A history of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Amateur footage of a journey down the Clyde by steamer to Rothesay.
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Various shots of ships on slipways and dock scenes.
Amateur footage of various steamers and vessels around Argyll and the Western Isles.
Amateur footage of family holidays in Wales and Switzerland and sailing on the Clyde.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
The first part of a short series on the River Clyde, studying the geography, social distribution and industry from the source of the river to the outskirts of Glasgow.
An overview of the Upper River Clyde area, its shipbuilding history and contemporary management.
The welding process and manufacture of pipe fittings are shown in the Clyde Tube Forgings on Hillington Industrial Estate.
Tour around Ayrshire including Burns Cottage, Glen Trool, Culzean Castle and the Queen Mother opening Prestwick Airport.
A tour of the Mavor and Coulson Bridgeton works, Glasgow,