Basierend auf den Kinderbüchern von Isabel Abedi erzählt der Film von der kleinen Lola, einem Mädchen mit einer unbändigen Fantasie. In ihrer Traumwelt hat sie einen Vater aus dem fernen Brasilien...
Dokumentarfilm über die Lebenswelt der Bienen und ihre Bedeutung für den Menschen und die Natur. Anlass für die Realisierung des Films war ein seit geraumer Zeit zu beobachtendes, weltweites Bienen...
Verfilmung des Theaterstücks von Rob Becker. Als Autoverkäufer ist Rob eine echte Niete, aber seine wahre Bestimmung sieht er ohnehin woanders: Seit Kindertagen träumt er davon, als Comedian Karrie...
Deutschland in den 1960er Jahren. Dem jungen Künstler Kurt Barnert gelingt die Flucht aus der DDR nach Westdeutschland. Aber auch dort wird er von den Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen an seine traum...
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...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961. The 1957 Industrial Fair and Exhibition in Sydney, Australia where Babcock and Wilcox Australion Co. had a ...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox between 1954 and 1961, it illustrates the firm's involvement with atomic power and their construction of a reactor pressure vessel at Hinkley Po...
The sculptor Benno Schotz at work in his studio in Glasgow, and demonstrating his technique. The film examines his working methods and the themes running through his work. Much of his work is as a m...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. made between 1954 and 1961, it is a review of the work and recreation for members and friends of the Babcock and Wilcox family. [Se...
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
A James-Bond type fiction film about an evil woman's plans to 'hi-jack' the New Town of Cumbernauld.
Amateur footage of the Carmunnock May Day celebrations and a display event at a riding school.
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...
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
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...
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...
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....