Informative overview of horse-drawn carriages as a means of transport in Edinburgh from Victorian times to more recent times (milk delivery). Illustrated with dramatised sequences and information on ...
A romantic wee ballet, Highland Fling is Matthew Bourne’s take on the classic La Sylphide. It follows James, a young Scot with sex, love and rock and roll on his mind, and his fateful journey from t...
The first flight over Mount Everest on 3rd April 1933, in two modified Westland Wallace bi-planes, piloted by early Scottish aviators, the Marquess of Clydesdale and Donald McIntyre. This daring feat...
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...
The Public Health Department was created to put reception and counseling facilities into place--with the American Committee's help-- for parents in difficulty. An American Committee nurse, assisted b...
(Reel 1) King George V and General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army to which the two divisions were attached, are greeted by 30th (Old Hickory) Division commander, Major-General Edward M Lew...
An introduction to Perthshire, highlighting its places of interest, countryside and leisure opportunities.
Scenes of the peace pageant in the Borders town of Galashiels.
Japan Desk Scotland’s third documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking at the aftermath in the area around Okuma Town, the remaining effects of radioactive contamination, and ...
Japan Desk Scotland’s eighth documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking back at the work to create a radiation map of the surrounding area and the establishment of the Institu...
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
I. The steam catapult trials carried out at the Armstrong Whitworth plant, Elswick, and later at the Experimental Aircraft Depot, Isle of Grain. A steam catapult fitted to HMS Slinger is used first to...
Overview of journey from Glasgow city centre to Rothesay and Largs on passenger steamer circa 1935.
Ursula Geyer-Hopfe, Peter René Lüdicke
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
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 ...
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 ...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
Amateur home movies, including family visits, Christmas scenes, days out and family pets.