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...
"The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Events at the 1950 Crieff Highland Gathering, the first held after 1939.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
Campaign film highlighting the effects of the public expenditure cuts on university students, as seen through the eyes of Sammie, a female student at Glasgow University. Using photomontage, graphics,...
One day, on the island of Lesbos, a shepherd by the name of Lamonas finds an abandoned little boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. The shepherd calls the boy Dafnis and takes him as his own chil...
Amateur footage of a Scots' Society trip to Scotland, visiting Stirling, Gleneagles, Crieff, Comrie and Lochearnhead.
Adaptation of the fairy tale, TOM THUMB, by Charles Perrault: The parents of a very poor family decide they must abandon their seven children in a forest where they get into some tricky situations try...
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Mexico's ambassador to Spain, Colonel Adalberto Tejeda, reads a message from his government which reaffirms its support for the Spanish Re...
A musical film with elements of a detective thriller, which was left unfinished by its director Theodoros Angelopoulos. The members of the famous band from the 1960s, the Forminx, try to find the woma...
Because of objections from their relatives, a young couple from different social classes cannot overcome these obstacles to their marriage. The young woman is destined to marry a man who belongs to he...
Finlandia Newsreel 220 concentrates on a single topic: the harrowing case of Kyllikki Saari. The murder of Kyllikki Saari is the most famous homicide in Finnish history. Kyllikki Saari, a 17-year old ...
Newsreels from August 1949
Newsreels from August 1949
news items from 1946.
news items from 1946.
This film was made by the Favorit Film Company based on film shots of Prague taken at the beginning of the 20´s (at that time published in series I.-VI.). The film focuses on the most remarkable sigh...