Nach einer Umweltkatastrophe breitet sich der (fiktive) bolivianische Salzsee Diablo Blanco immer weiter aus und bedroht die Lebensräume von Menschen und Tieren. Im Auftrag der Vereinten Nationen sol...
Dokumentarfilm über die zeitgenössische Punk-Musik-Szene, die sich in verschiedensten Teilen der Welt noch immer einer großen Lebendigkeit erfreut. Dabei porträtiert der Film Menschen, für d...
Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, der sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Frage nähert, wie die Zukunft der Menschheit aussehen könnte. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die Frage, welche Hoffnungen...
Volker Michalowski (in the middle), Gael García Bernal (on the right) in "Salt and Fire" (2015/16)
Dramatised situations where teenagers discuss problems about communicating with their parents, boyfriends and sex education.
The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...
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.