In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
A holiday film in Dornoch in the Highlands, including a visit to Carnaig Cottage and Loch Maree.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
Amateur footage of a home theatre performance of Cinderella.
Amateur footage of a stage play or musical performed in Paisley by members of the Townswomen's Guild.
HRH the Prince of Wales on a tour of the Highlands and Islands with visits including the Highland stoneware pottery at Lochinver, a woollen mill on Lewis, an electronics factory on Skye and fudge and ...
An impressionistic account of the attractions that Aberdeen and Deeside offer the summer visitor.
The Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
1930s footage of the Musselburgh fishing fleet at sea and at Stornoway and Mallaig, pre-war military activity around Oban and the Fisherrow Fisherman's Walk celebrations - also includes 1950s footage ...
Study of seals and sea-lions at Calderpark Zoo, Glasgow. Concludes with section showing seals giving display in a circus.
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...
Beautiful shots of fishing boats at Wick Harbour, including the loading of sheep and cattle onto the ferry. Features brief shots of a foal at the end.
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 ...
The people of Lochgelly at work and play, with footage of wash day and playing golf and bowls.
A survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
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...
Kammerspiel (deutsch nachsynchron.) von Noel Coward nach seinem
The visit of Luis Fidel Yanez to Brussels's Commerce Fair at the Cinquantenaire.
Young couple on Sunday morning: the man plays the tuba in the bed, his wife struggles with the housework in the old building. He proposes to have breakfast at a friendly couple. There, the proudly wif...
A film about the production of Longines watches at their factory in Saint-Imier.
The film shows footage of the city of Wiesbaden, Germany. It was first shown to the public at the opening of the Thalia Theater on January 31, 1914. Of the original 5 episodes of the film (The Thalia ...
[Bologna 11 March 1978: the movement] Footage (taken from a window) of a demonstration by the Bologna students movement in remembrance of the events of March 1977. The procession moves along Via Zambo...
The Tara is a river on the outskirts of the southern Italian industrial city of Taranto, whose waters are believed to have healing powers according to an ancient legend. Bathing in it is a tradition a...
Striated Stone Meets Fragile IdealsSomewhere something is going very wrong, but nobody does anything about it. No one dares to call the problem by its name. They just ignorantly scratch on the surface...