A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
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.
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...
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.
A film discussing the various forms of energy used by man.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
News report on the World Fair in 1935 in Brussels.
Bishop Ordination in St. Gallen on 16.10.1938, all sequences show different people from the church, i.e. Cardinal Pacelli / later Pius XII, walking down a forecourt, that is bordered by other guests.
01 – Iniziativa (Gorizia, 1/10/1971) Gruppi di giovani scendono dagli autobus all'aeroporto di Gorizia e vanno a raggiungere in pista un velivolo per iniziare le lezioni di cultura aeronautica...
An investigation of the world of photo illustrated comics.
A surprising tesimonial of Milanese transport in early Fifties, when the legendary old Peg Leg was put in storage, to be replaced by modern trains. Film restored in collaboration with Guido Guer...
The hard life in Porto Ulisse, a village of fishermen near Catania.
Life in the port of Naples.
La construction du Résidence Palace de Bruxelles, racontée dans l'ordre chronologique, de 1923 à 1927. Le film a sans doute été réalisé pour le Crédit général hypothécaire et mobilier, maî...