Jake er død, men Elwood Blues lever i bedste velgående, og efter 18 år i fængsel har han kun en ting i hovedet: at genskabe sit band "The Blues Brothers". Det lykkes Elwood at samle bandet, og han...
En sen aften da Bazil sidder og nyder sin smøreost direkte fra folie og citerer replikker fra The Big Sleep, bliver han distraheret af et gadeskyderi og får en vildfaren kugle i hovedet. På operati...
Show teatrene - med deres stort opsatte forestillinger med sang og dans - har længe haft deres bedste tid bag sig. Den tidligere danser, Tess, der ejer The Burlesque Lounge, kæmper derfor for at hol...
A short fiction film based on the macabre story by Danish author Willy Sørensen. Two young brothers are playing doctor. A friend of theirs has hurt his leg. In an attempt to prevent blood poisoning, ...
Commercial for the cleaning company Cemstobel.
Film on the Decroly school in Brussels.
Le Cortège de la mi-Carême à Schaerbeek, le 2 mars 1913. Passant devant un public nombreux, le cortège est filmé à l'angle d'une rue, devant un établissement portant le nom "Louis Sobry-Lepage"...
Construction d'un rempiètement à la Banque nationale de Belgique. Le tracé de la Jonction Nord-Midi longe le bâtiment de la Banque. Une série de schémas montre qu'il a fallu renforcer les fondat...
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
Various scenes of the village of Colinton from the early 1940s through to the mid 1950s.
An amateur film made about amateur film-makers. A new member is introduced to the work of the Aberdeen and District Cine Club.
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....
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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...
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...
Le service d'hygiène du comité américain a attiré l'attention des autorités médicales et des milieux parlementaires sur l'état d'hygiène sociale de l'enfance du département sinistré de l'Ais...
Promotional video for the newly commissioned Scottish Natural Heritage, made in 1992. Interviews with stakeholders are illustrated with photographic stills.
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...
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...
Young people enjoying various activities at Butlin's camp at Ayr. The purpose of the venture was to bring young Scots face to face with leaders in public life.
The changing forces in the traditional borderland; in the fishing and textile industries, farming, forestry and housing.