As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
The changing forces in the traditional borderland; in the fishing and textile industries, farming, forestry and housing.
The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".
An amateur 'cine jotter' featuring a compilation of footage in and around Berwickshire. Includes the Berwick Christmas lights of 1998, rural scenes around the Tweed, salmon fishing at Norham Bridge, ...
The Gathering at Glenfinnan in the Highlands to mark the 200th anniversary of raising the standard of James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
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...
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...
Film sponsored by Esso following the Scottish Rally of 1976. The rally begins in Ayrshire and takes in the Highlands. Interviews with various drivers at the roadside and after each stage is completed...
An amateur film compilation around the Borders. Includes footage of a visit to Duns by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rt. Rev Dr. James A. Simpson, a 250th annive...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
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...
Pierre Schaeffer's music was the source of inspiration to remember the disappeared train track from Sant Feliu de Guíxols to Girona. Leaving the station of Sant Feliu, the main places of its route ar...
The film shows traditional farm life i the 1950s in a rural village in Western Norway before the land reallocation.
Events in 1962: state film award, parliamentary election, opening of the 1962 session of parliament, President Kekkonen departs for Moscow, President Kekkonen leaves for Paris, U Thant in Finland, mur...
Ruins of the Kaarti barracks building. Former execution site in Kruunuhaka, Helsinki. Mrs Helga Pedersen, Minister of Justice of Denmark, in Helsinki. 20th anniversary celebration of the Finnish Reser...
American film crew in Finland making a tourist film in colour. Technology students mark the 60th birthday of industrialist Wilhelm Wahlforss by offering him a helicopter flight from his villa in Toppe...
In the USA, prisoners of the Cuban revolution bargaining over their freedom; tractors in payment for liberty. Athlete Volmari Iso-Hollo visits a spa in Czechoslovakia (foreign material). The Mexican a...
UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld is killed in an air crash on 17 September 1961; old material: Hammarskjöld at the airport in Seutula in 1958. Statue of author Juhani Aho revealed in Engelinauk...
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...