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 ...
"Auf Umwegen" (2024)
German movie poster of "Heldin" (2025)
Judith Kaufmann (front) while shooting "Heldin" (2025)
Petra Biondina Volpe while shooting "Heldin" (2025)
Leonie Benesch in "Heldin" (2025)
Leonie Benesch in "Heldin" (2025)
Promotional documentary on missionary work in Belgian Congo. Commissioned by the Priests of the Sacred Heart, who are trying to recruit new missionaries for the Belgian colony of Congo.
Film showing two tourists travelling to Belgian Congo.
The brigade, raised in Camberwell, parades through the streets on its way to join 33rd Division at Bulford. The streets are lined with people as the limbers move past.
Newsreel item on CLVI Briga...
The two men are in a village in the rear areas. Lipton guides the Prince up to the camera. The Prince exchanges a few words with a convalescent Serbian soldier. A portrait shot of the Prince.
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Engineers place dynamite into the holes drilled for the blast. The charge of 26 tons of dynamite is then used to blow a cliff-face, bringing down 300,000 tons of rock, "a record blast".
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The snow sculptures have been made in a park. Some are intentionally comic but a few are obviously intended as serious art. The various 'artists' retouch their creations. According to the caption one ...
The hearses, with an escort of sailors, enter the cemetery. One coffin, draped with a Union Jack, is taken from its hearse to its burial plot. An Army burial party fires shots over the grave. One woma...
The trade unionist shop stewards "representing 40,000 shipyard workers" are shown around the hospital. They include some women. They are shown a patient receiving heat lamp treatment. A group of them ...
The cadets, on the ground, study maps. Two of them climb out of a Bristol F2B Fighter after a training flight. One has his parachute harness checked. Another tries to control his parachute on the grou...
Two items from this issue: "The Atlantic Flight - Miss Catherine Masson christens the waterplane "America" which is to attempt the great flight across the Atlantic." "Great Britain Prepares - Scenes ...