Reportage sur la mort du Roi Albert Ier, d'abord à Marche-les-Dames, puis à Bruxelles. Le film commence à Marche-les-Dames. On voit une vue d'ensemble, puis la gare. Des dizaines de voitures arrive...
Report on the growth of the city of Brussels
Unedited fragments, the first trials of the young cinematographer Gaston Schoukens.
Reportage sur un voyage en Belgique d'un groupe "d'évolués" en 1956. 1956. Une avion de la Sabena, venant de Léopoldville atterrit en Belgique. Seize notables et "évolués" (dont Patrice Lumumba)...
Report on the coronation of king Leopold III.
Documentaire sur la nécessité de sauvegarder l'archéologie industrielle en Flandre. Le film commence par des vues aériennes autour d'usines en ruines, au milieu de paysages. Puis des travaux de dÃ...
News item on the visit of Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte of Luxemburg to Brussels.
Court film de promotion pour le "Xaveriuskring Koninklijke Harmonie" de Carloo-St.Job (Uccle St. Job)" . Le film comporte plusieurs cartons publicitaires, retranscrits tels quels (voir remarques cherc...
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.
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.