Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
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.
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Laurel and Hardy visit Edinburgh in 1932, arriving at Waverley Station, going to the North British Hotel and finally, visiting the Castle.
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...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961. Featuring their Cyclone furnace for firing coal at work; the Renfrew staff association magazine going to pre...
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.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
To tvillingebrødre, den ene, Gino, en dygtig medicin-studerende, den anden, Nicky, noget langsom i optrækket efter en ulykke i barndommen. Nicky bliver passet af Gino. En dag ser Nicky en dreng bliv...
Glasgows populæreste diskjockey, kaldet Dicky Bird, bliver ved et tilfælde vidne til et opgør mellem to konkurrerende flødeisfirmaer, ejet af skotsk-italienske familier som nærmest benytter mafia...
To større historier, én alvorlig og melodramatisk og én noget lettere, samt flere mindre sidehistorier, væves sammen og giver, fra forskellige vinkler, et billede af tilværelsens kringlede forhol...
En skildring af to engelske kvinders oplevelser i Indien med 60 års mellemrum. Den første kvindeskæbne - skildres i en handling udspillet i 1923, hvor en engelsk kvinde møder og forføres af en in...
Dominic Toretto har levet i skjul i Sydamerika i otte år, og benyttet sit talent for racerkørsel til at lave små kup. Nu tvinger et tragisk dødsfald ham tilbage til USA for at øve retfærdighed, ...
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...
To unge amerikanere beslutter sig af vidt forskellige grunde til at sælge top-hemmelige oplysninger til Sovjetunionen.
Fortælling om to zoolog-tvillingebrødre (titlen hentyder også til ordet zoo), deres eksperimenter med forrådnelsesprocessen hos døde dyr og deres forhold til en (efterhånden) benløs kvinde.
Om to mænd og deres problemer med at klare både hinanden og verden omkring dem, hvor alt og alle tilsyneladende vil gøre livet surt for dem.
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
Efter en halv snes års lykkeligt samliv betror manden sin hustru, at han 10 år tidligere har haft en affære med en kvinde i Frankrig, at hun nu er død ved en færdselsulykke - og at hun har efterl...