Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
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...
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.
T.V. Documentary from the mid 1960s reporting on the action the Stirlingshire police force is taking towards road safety. The second report is a interview with the entertainer Bruce Forsyth backstag...
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
James Kottak, Matthias Jabs, Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Pawel Maciwoda (from left to right) in "Scorpions - Forever and a Day" (2010-15)
Amateur footage of a coach trip from Glasgow to Rome, travelling through France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria on the way.
Compilation of scenes from Glasgow in the sixties including footage of the Gorbals, Paddy's Market, the Broomielaw the Alhambra Theatre and Glasgow Green.
A recording of "Project 1965", a stage show organised by the Scottish Committee of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, with Scottish regional guilds performing tableaux from different lands.
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...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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...
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
Japan Desk Scotland’s third documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking at the aftermath in the area around Okuma Town, the remaining effects of radioactive contamination, and ...
Japan Desk Scotland’s eighth documentary about the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, looking back at the work to create a radiation map of the surrounding area and the establishment of the Institu...
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...
I. The steam catapult trials carried out at the Armstrong Whitworth plant, Elswick, and later at the Experimental Aircraft Depot, Isle of Grain. A steam catapult fitted to HMS Slinger is used first to...
Overview of journey from Glasgow city centre to Rothesay and Largs on passenger steamer circa 1935.