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.
‘Waxing bars’ at the national cross-country ski event. Yugoslavian minister lays a wreath at the war memorial. ‘Winter Road Days’ in Hyvinkää. Aid ship leaving for Holland from Turku Harbour...
Sculptor Aarre Aaltonen (1889-1980) sculpting a memorial to the victims of the 1918 Civil War. Finnish soldiers kill a bear. Athletics competition organised by the sports club KIF at Helsinki Olympic...
President Kekkonen travels to France: Departure from Helsinki Seutula Airport. Overview of Paris. Arrival at Orly Airport. Lunch at the Élysée Palace. Dinner at the Finnish Embassy. Versailles. Visi...
This episode presents the rail transport of automobiles ; the comfort of new armchairs ; the possibility of renting places in advance ; the shooting of technical tests ; the reconstruction of housing ...
A performance of Five Rückert Songs by Scottish Ballet, recorded at the Studio Theatre in 261 West Princes Street. A woman, disenchanted with the glamorous but passing pleasures of her life, finds w...
A depiction of the early postwar life in the city of Budapest. The introduction includes many scenes of war ruins in the city centre. It specifically focuses on reconstruction of bridges. It contains ...
The film offers a look into the history of the castle in Jindřichův Hradec, in the end it shows several shots from the post-war city. It argues that the demise of the aristocracy is followed by "rap...
A beautiful woman saves a Toblerone chocolate from the railway tracks, but doesn't see the approaching train...