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...
The Mayor is taken on a tour of the town and surrounding sights, to Comrie colliery and on a Clyde pleasure steamer.
An introduction to Perthshire, highlighting its places of interest, countryside and leisure opportunities.
Amateur footage of a journey down the Clyde by steamer to Rothesay.
Home movie of a family relaxing in a garden and on a visit to the beach.
Amateur footage of a steamer trip to Rothesay on board the St. Columba.
Amateur home movie footage of family events, including home visits, trips to the seaside and riding stables.
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
Amateur footage of a coach trip from Glasgow to Rome, travelling through France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria on the way.
Japan Desk Scotland’s eighth documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking back at the work to create a radiation map of the surrounding area and the establishment of the Institu...
Overview of journey from Glasgow city centre to Rothesay and Largs on passenger steamer circa 1935.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
Shopping in Glasgow. Fruit and vegetables being selected for delivery to local stores.
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
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...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
Gertrud Bredel (front), Eva Maria Schneider, Eva Maria Bayerwaltes, Rüdiger Weigang, Dieter Schaad, Sabine Wagner, Gabriele Blum, Marita Breuer (grown ups standing, from left to right), Frank Kleid (...
President of the Government of Catalonia, Francesc Macià, reads a fragment of his address on the occasion of the opening of the Parliament of Catalonia on 6 December 1932. On 25 October of that same ...
News item explaining the stages of the deployment of the Antwerp Forts in the First World War (through animated images). Antwerp was the last fortified stronghold of the Belgian army. However, the Ger...
Incomplete news report. Commemoration of the battle near Liège. Including footage of towns close to Liège where the German invader was stopped temporarily in August 1914.
Incomplete news report...
A film depicting an organisation of the 11th edition of a sport reunion of the Sokol (sport) community taking place in 1948 in Prague right after the communist putsch. The Sokol organisation was very ...
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...
Film of the unknown origin, with assumption that it was filmed by the Russian cameraman Samson Cernov, was made directly after the liberation of Skadar in April 1913. We can see in the film buildings ...
This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighborhoods in memory ...