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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
Hvis du kunne rejse tilbage i tid til et hvilket som helst tidspunkt i dit liv, hvad ville du så gøre anderledes? For Tim Lake er svaret let: For ham vil det altid handle om kærlighed. Da han som 2...
En grammofonplade med Chopins Vals i cis-mol sammenknytter otte forskellige historier:<p>En ung mand køber pladen til en vens kone, som han har en affære med. Vennen opdager forholdet. Pladen ...
In a small patriarchal community on Scotland's rugged Atlantic coast Bess is considered a good but simple-minded girl, who should not really marry Jan, her foreign oil-rig machinist friend. When Jan i...
When Uncle Anders learns he is inheriting a castle on Funen, the whole family piles in the car to go to there for heir holiday. As it turns out, another family is also claiming title to the castle. A ...
Sommeren er som somre plejer at være i Mumidalen, varm og hyggelig - og fuld af muligheder. Men en nat bliver det storm, og langt ude i himmelrummet lyser et rødt øje, som bliver større og større...
Peter O' Conners mor er død. Et ægtepar lover præsten at sørge for drengen og lade ham opdrage sammen med deres noget ældre søn. Han mishandles dog og udnyttes af familien, og han må ernære si...
På et værtshus foregiver en krøbling at blive dårlig, og han får lov af værten til at hvile sig i et lagerlignende rum. Da værten er gået, åbner manden en lem i gulvet og kryber ned i kælder...
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