Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
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...
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
(Reel 1) The arsenal entrance in Beresford Square, with the internal train taking the workers to various departments. Women and boys in the Tailors' Shop make gloves, felt "buttons" for 15-inch shells...
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band leading, marching into Bethlehem (poor quality film). II. Allenby's visit to Bethlehem, 25 December 1917. He can be seen among...
Amateur footage of the last day of tram services on the streets of Glasgow, and the evening display of Glasgow's historic trams.
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...
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...
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...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
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 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...
(Reel 1) King George V and General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army to which the two divisions were attached, are greeted by 30th (Old Hickory) Division commander, Major-General Edward M Lew...
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Soviet Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva visiting Finland: Reception at the railway station. At the office of Armi Hosia, Minister of Education. National Theatre. Arabia’s ceramics factories. T...
Unveiling of the portrait of Liisa Orko, chairperson of the Finnish Women’s Physical Education Federation. 11th exhibition of the Nordic Art Association. Swedish Foreign Minister Nilsson in Finland....
A story of a famous Schicht soap factory located close to Czech-German borders founded by the Schicht family. The film presents Georg Schicht as a traitor of the Czechoslovakia as well as a supporter ...
A railroadworker at his daily work. When he crosses the rails, his foot gets jammed in a switch. He desperately tries to pull out his foot. Suddenly, a train approaches. A mortal agony begins.
An advertising poster of Bio Deklarace (Prague, Žižkov, Komenského square) from 1938 draws attentention to the screening of the film Poručík "Alexander Rjepkin/Lieutenant Alexander Rjepkin". The ...
The documentary film is documenting the production of footwear from raw leather to finished products. We can watch cows being taken for the slaughter, production of shoe leather from beef fell. An act...
At the beginning of the film you can see a photograph of Jakub Arbes. People are carrying a coffin from a house in the Švédská Street. A funeral car is coming to the cemetery in Malazinky. Mourning...
A film view of the Krkonoše (the Giant Mountains) Mountain ridge to the Prachovské Rocks. The natural scenery of Český ráj (the Czech Paradise). Views of individual rock formations of the Prachov...