A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
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...
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...
Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...
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...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
German movie poster of "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Enrique Fiss in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Maartje Pasman, Enrique Fiss in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
"Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Documentary dedicated to the artillery assigned to the Italian troops in Africa, shot by Luca Comerio in 1912, while the war in Libya was underway. The video is a copy from the film print preserved in...
A presentation of the methods chosen by the French Ministry of Reconstruction in order to build more housing faster through the industrialization of the building sector.
Film presented during the...
Unfinished film of camera shots made during a children's trip to the seaside. Most of these children are orphans whose parents died during World War Two.
Unfinished film of camera shots made duri...
Wide shot of men sitting at a table in a hospital room. Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is standing at the head of the table with raised arms, speaking to the group. Sitting to the left of him is Vy...
A fast train is going through snowy landscape to the town of Liberec, where it is possible to practice winter sports on the snow plains near the Ještěd Mountain. The chalet of the Czech Winter Sport...
A promotion film made to order of the owner of the Pelhřimov textile factory, J. F. Kouřímský. The film shots illustrate the history of his business activities, from initial simple production carr...
[Villa Olimpia] A party at Villa Olimpia, a centre for experimental psychiatry in Bologna. The centre was open from 1964 to 1967. At the beginning, a shot of the entrance sign to the centre; a Christm...
Comedy in which two friends, who are both lieutenants, try to find favour with Fifi, who owns a fashion boutique in a garrison town. The two friends, who are both married to a daughter of the general,...