A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait reads the poem throughout the film.
Amateur footage of the Erskine ferry and slipways after ceasing operation after the opening of the new Erskine Bridge.
Scenes of the peace pageant in the Borders town of Galashiels.
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
Amateur footage of the south side of Glasgow and the city centre during heavy snow.
Broxburn Gala Day and crowning of the Queen, 26th June 1954. Includes footage of the procession, children's fancy dress competition and the Gala Queen crowning ceremony.
Procession of the Gala Queen and "The Champion" through the streets of Kirkliston, West Lothian. 3rd July 1954.
The first annual inter-house school sports day at Broxburn High School, West Lothian. 5th July 1954.
Le Vieil-Armand - côte allemand (Hartmannswillerkopf, Vosges, Haut-Rhin)
1426 - Verdun - Fort de Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1399 - Bois-le-Prêtre - Observatoire (Priesterwald, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine)
Mont Haut - Cimetière (Département Marne)
4209 - Verdun - Tunnel á Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1416 - Releve des morts
1470 - Avant l'assaut á Ville-sur-Tourbe (Département Marne, Champagne-Ardenne)
1500 - Perthes - Cadavre (Ardennes, Champagne-Ardennes)
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.