Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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.
T.V. Documentary from the mid 1960s reporting on the action the Stirlingshire police force is taking towards road safety. The second report is a interview with the entertainer Bruce Forsyth backstag...
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...
Amateur footage of the 13th UNICA Congress held in Glasgow in 1951, with visits to Ayr and Crieff, and ciné club members filming.
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.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
T.V. Documentary from the mid 1960s reporting on the action the Stirlingshire police force is taking towards road safety. The second report is a interview with the entertainer Bruce Forsyth backstag...
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...
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The French-made gun (no identification, but possibly a 155mm naval gun) rests in its emplacement with its breech-block removed. The caption says it was destroyed in the Austrian attack which took Belg...
The soldiers enter the Guildhall, followed by the Lord Mayor, who leaves his coach. Some of the soldiers improvise a Highland fling for the camera.
I. Mrs C S Peel, Director of the Women's Sectio...
A British soldier walks through a forest of long, hooked metal poles set in concrete, probably as a form of reinforcement. A barbed wire entanglement more than fifty metres deep. An RAMC man emerges f...
A cartographic problem that arose when the German-German border was to be erased. "The Border" provides an interesting explanation of an ancient German problem; which, although it has long since been ...
Company newsreel (Phillips Petroleum Company Norway) : helicopter accident in the British sector : managing the Danish sector from Norway: company head quarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma : interview ...
The handcrafting of herring barrels was a venerable skill that eventually gave way to industrial production methods. In this film, however, cooper Ole Vaka from Haugesund shows us how to make a barrel...
Air show in Helsinki marking the 30th anniversary of the Finnish Aeronautical Association. Toy consignment from the USA. Tourist bus Pääsky (‘Swallow’). Forestry students’ rally. Ounasvaara Sk...
Inter-provincial swimming competition at the Swimming Stadium in Helsinki. Girl Guides from abroad at an international camp in Kolho. Motoring hotel of the Finnish Automobile Club in Tammela. Celebrat...