The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
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...
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
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...
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...
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....
A family holiday around Firth of Clyde and beyond on various boats. Includes a trip to Belfast and a trip 'Doon The Watter' on the Waverley.
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.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
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...
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
The actors from the left to right are distinguished: Vassilis Mavromatis, Mirka Kalantzopoulou, Thanasis Mylonas, Niki Linardou, Tolis Voskopoulos, Rota Cleopatra
An unemployed young man (Stathis Psaltis) gets into a number of adventures in his quest to find the man who crashed into his motorbike.
A documentary that follows the evolution, from concept to performance, of The Bacchae by the Greek Art Theater. The performance was first staged at Epidaurus in 1981.
In an isolated provincial town a young girl sees in a soldier the hope to get away from her suffocating environment.
Two brothers from Samos open a shop in Athens. Across the street, another man from Samos opens a car repair shop. The hostility that develops between them is passed down to their grandchildren.
\nNikiforos Naneris leads a life without meaning in Giorgos Stampoulopoulos' film Open letter. To his right, Christos Zorba, in a scene from the film
Photo of "We only have one life" scene from the bank, where Kleonas (Dimitris Horn) worked as cashier, talking to his collegue.
A young emerald miner (Giorgos Fountas) is in love with a girl (Sofi Lila) but doesn’t ask her to marry him because he cannot support her financially.