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...
It is Christmas Eve and Martha, Eleni's grandaughter, is sent out to beg in the streets, is hit by a car and seriously injured. Martha’s grandmother, Eleni, is Mrs. Olga’s maid from Southern Epir...
A tourist guide to the town of Crieff and surrounding countryside. Describes Crieff's attractions as a tourist centre.
The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".
Amateur animation about a seal who befriends Santa Claus.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
A weekend at Crieff Hydro for members of the Scottish Association of Amateur Cinematographers where film-makers are seen preparing for a shoot, followed by the film, THE IBM CASE.
An open-air lecture by Margaret Baker telling the story about the dangers of drink, and propounding the benefits of drinking milk.
An amateur film made about amateur film-makers. A new member is introduced to the work of the Aberdeen and District Cine Club.
Maaseudun Kukkasrahasto Foundation’s sketches for standardised youth centre buildings. Art by Timo Sarpaneva. Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahti Karjalainen returns from the United States to settle t...
‘Building the summer’ exhibition in Helsinki. 45th anniversary of the Finnish Air Force. 310th anniversary of the Viipurilainen osakunta student nation. Cinema organisation Filmiaura’s press con...
Destructions in Stuttgart: main station, Schlossplatz, Rathausplatz, Schillerplatz; street traffic in the city center; removal of rubble; reconstruction; meeting with OB Dr. Arnulf Klett (1905-1974, f...
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...
Seven Sabena news items from 1953.
Several news items. Students from the Royal Military School (prince Philip, amongst others) are being taken around for a guided tour in the Yser region.
Shows the production of the Tobler chocolate from the cow to the consumer.
Soldiers are coming to the railway station. Legionaries are standing posing for the camera. The train is crowded with soldiers; some of them are also on the wagon roof. Minister Klofáč is parting wi...