The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
An illustration of Lossiemouth's fishing industry detailing the preparations before, during and after a catch. The Seine fishing method is highlighted. [Prize-winning film at the 7th Scottish Amateu...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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.
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
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...