A light-hearted amateur dramatisation of the Bobby Bare song "Time", in which an elderly gentleman laments the passage of time.
Harvesting of wheat and corn by hand and machinery.
Harvesting, processing and exporting tea leaves in India, Ceylon, Kenya and Indonesia for McGavins tea factory, with sampling and testing of tea, packaging and cargoes to be shipped across the globe.
A film about the Marshall Plan and the background for it in Norway and Europe.
Shots of Smith's Wishaw factory where clocks are seen on the production line.
Winter holiday scenes at Pitlochry and in France (Paris and Lake Annecy, Alps).
Short drama, told with very little dialogue. Concerns two elderly men; the life of one of whom seems tied in to the winding down of a clock... Set around Edinburgh, this has shots of the Mound, Dalm...
Experience Edinburgh University's Student Charities Week drive in 1949 and 1950. Includes footage of door to door collections, variety performance in 'Varsity Vanities of 1949', Torchlight Procession...
A drama about a famous actor who, while studying the role of Hamlet, begins to think that Yorick's skull is that of his one-time friend and rival in love; this suggestion excites him so much so that h...
The story is an adaptation of a Prague legend about Petr Parléř, architect to Charles IV who was entrusted with the task of building a Gothic cathedral in Prague, a magnificent example of the archit...
Young Frantík, living with his guardian, befriends Martička, the daughter of factory owner Simon. Frantík's mother, however, comes to take her son back with her and puts him in a children's home wh...
While a group of children is playing by the railroad station, a tragic accident occurs during which Vašíček's legs are crushed by a train. After a complicated operation Vašíček is moved to Jedli...
"The plot is set sometime during the 14th or 15th century and is based on the old chivalrous legends which are now gone forever. It tells of a beautiful girl whose father, a prince, forces her to marr...
A female artist is troubled that she cannot finish her painting of the wandering Jew Ahasuerus. So she sends her obedient husband to find a model. After a careful search the husband eventually finds s...
The designer Hartwig goes on holiday to the Krkonoše mountains where his father works as a postman. The latter falls ill and Karel carries out his work in his stead. The Prague builder Werner, who is...
The coquettish Eva fires love into a captain's heart, the she rejects him and he tries to kidnap her. In the end, he renounces his love. Eva enters a convent and the captain tries to find her. Eva is ...