The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
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...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Russian war drama about the love between a peasant girl and a Russian prince at the time of the Russian (February) Revolution in 1917. As a young peasant girl, Mary Warren (Geraldine Farrar) is being ...
A 'Cotter's' coach tour holiday to Austria.
The Mayor is taken on a tour of the town and surrounding sights, to Comrie colliery and on a Clyde pleasure steamer.
Amateur footage of ciné club outings to Moffat and Biggar.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
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...
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
Szegedi Anna, a lawyer having just arrived back from Naples wants to divorce his husband, also a lawyer, because since a hot night she has only been thinking of Laczkó, the handsome businessman. At f...
Manousos (Nikos Xanthopoulos) is the eldest child of a poor and large family living in rural Greece. When he completes his military duty, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother (Eleni Zafeiro...
The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a single child weighing six kilograms. He would like...
Fani (Martha Vourtsi) is a poor young woman who works at the office of the rich entrepreneur Petras. Her mother Despo is suffering from a heart condition and has placed all her hope of Fani getting ma...
A shepherd gets his girlfriend pregnant, but she decides to have an abortion. The man leaves the countryside and goes to Thessaloniki, where he hangs out with the marginalized and the desperately poor...
The Duke and Duchess of York leaving Inverness railway station for Skye, 1934 and the Royal Academy Sports Day, 1950. [1934 item believed commissioned by Malcolm "Pop' Roberts, cinema manager, 1950...
The film is incomplete and without its proper opening. The opening sequence alternates between shots of the diary of a German Artillery officer and captions of its contents, stating that the German bo...