A trip down the Clyde, taking in shipbuilding works and coastal villages.
Amateur footage of fishing boats at sea from the trawler 'Faithful', boats at Oban, Ayr and Peel and on the Caledonian Canal - includes footage of a bomb disposal team.
The river from source to sea; farming and fruit-growing in the Lanarkshire countryside and the river's traditions of heavy industry and shipbuilding.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
The Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
A history of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Amateur footage of a journey down the Clyde by steamer to Rothesay.
Scenes from the River Clyde including the launch of the "Queen Mary" from John Brown's shipyard and on board the steamer "Empress of Britain".
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Various shots of ships on slipways and dock scenes.
The procession and crowning of the Queen of the Bonnie Lassies, Miss Anne Thomson, at Ayr Ice Rink.
Steamers, paddles steamers and naval vessels on the river and some of the Clyde shipyards including John Brown's and Fairfields.
Using music and images the history of the people of Glasgow set against scenes of demolition, unemployment and industrial wasteland.
Amateur footage of various steamers and ships on the Firth of Clyde and in the Western Isles.
Amateur footage of various steamers and vessels around Argyll and the Western Isles.
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Amateur footage of family holidays in Wales and Switzerland and sailing on the Clyde.
The first part of a short series on the River Clyde, studying the geography, social distribution and industry from the source of the river to the outskirts of Glasgow.