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BLACK AND DECKER LIMITED
non-fiction
1950
National Library of Scotland

Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]

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STEEL AND ENGINEERING
non-fiction
1960
National Library of Scotland

Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.

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SCOTLAND'S GARDENS AND ALLOTMENTS
non-fiction / Amateur film
1945
National Library of Scotland

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.

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STAN AND OLLIE
non-fiction / Newsreel
1932
National Library of Scotland

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.

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SADNESS AND GLADNESS
non-fiction
1928
National Library of Scotland

Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.

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TRAMPING AND CAMPING
non-fiction / Educational film
1948
National Library of Scotland
Other title(s):
- Junior Activity Films series

A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.

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ART AND MOVEMENT
non-fiction / Educational film
1965
National Library of Scotland

A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.

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BRIDE AND GROOM
Feature film / Amateur film
1956
National Library of Scotland

Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]

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Images
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MESOPOTAMIA - BAGHDAD AND RIVER SCENES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...

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BAGHDAD, BABYLON AND BAALBEC [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA (further episode) (?) [related]

Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.

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CAMELS AND JAFFA [Main]
Imperial War Museums

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...

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FATHER AND LATHER [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- [FILM TAGS] [Allocated Series]

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...

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DOUAI AND LILLE [Main]
Imperial War Museums

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...

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PIGEONS AND SEAPLANES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

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...

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WOMEN AND THE WAR [Main]
Imperial War Museums

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...

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BOMBING SCHOOL AND SPORTS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...

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Texts
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WITH THE NORTH AND SOUTH IRISH AT THE FRONT [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FOURTH SERIES [series]

(Reel 1) Connaught Rangers eating in billets near Hulluch, March 1916. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers near Messines, June 1917. Royal Munster Fusiliers march to Mass near Hulluch, March 1916. 2nd Battal...

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HM QUEEN MARY AT CHATHAM AND COVENTRY [Main]
Imperial War Museums

I. The film opens as the Queen leaves a factory escorted by a mayor. It jumps to her inspecting Royal Marines and Royal Navy ratings drawn up at Chatham. The King is also present, in naval uniform. Th...

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LAUNCH OF HM AIRSHIPS R36 AND R38 [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The R36 is nose-forward in its shed. Workers turn a large capstan to wind back the doors of the shed and the airship is towed out. It is clearly marked as R36 and as G-FAAF. It takes off from its laun...

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47TH STATIONARY HOSPITAL, GAZA, AND TROOPS IN PALESTINE [Main]
Imperial War Museums

III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or M...

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the ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF LORD ROBERTS AT CAPETOWN [Main]
Imperial War Museums

An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. Roberts, in Field Marshal's dress blue uniform, comes down the gangplank, followed by hi...

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PLANT AND OPERATIONS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GASMASKS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...

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GENERAL DE LISLE PRESENTING MEDALS TO OFFICERS AND MEN [Main]
Imperial War Museums

An officer, possibly Major-General H B de Lisle, presenting medals to a kilted battalion, who then march past. A pan over a group from the battalion sitting and smoking. They are possibly the Canadian...

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the BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND ADVANCE OF THE TANKS [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- BATTLE OF THE ANCRE [alternative]

(Reel 1) Material from various phases of the Somme offensive without regard for logical or chronological continuity. The film opens with the unloading of supply trains, and soldiers on the march to th...

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