A portrait of Edinburgh, accompanied by the Picturesque notes of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1878.
“A film about the newest Stockholm”, produced in 1955, showing the city’s rapid modernisation and suburban extension during the years after the war. Cuts to printed advertisements and headlines ...
Documentary footage following the work of Glasgow's City Mission, including an interview in which a mission worker who discusses reasons for becoming homeless, and their approach to helping those who ...
Television documentary series focussing on the lives of ordinary Scots, this edition tells the story of Bob Harris and his family, originally a farmer from Coalburn, Lanarkshire who moved to the city ...
Mikes, who is responsible for the sanitation of a big city, is a ruthless extortionist who presses his wife Anna to give him a divorce so that he can marry his mistress. His cruelty and insensitivity ...
An illustration of the efforts made to rehouse families from sub-standard tenement flats in Glasgow, and to alleviate the housing shortage in the city.
Made to demonstrate how improvements to Glasgow city tenements could be made with the aid of Home Improvement Grants.
Documentary on city planning and the development areas in Glasgow c1970.