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...
Promotional video for the newly commissioned Scottish Natural Heritage, made in 1992. Interviews with stakeholders are illustrated with photographic stills.
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...
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 Pathescope travelogue film featuring scenes of the Lake District and Scottish lochs.
A romantic wee ballet, Highland Fling is Matthew Bourne’s take on the classic La Sylphide. It follows James, a young Scot with sex, love and rock and roll on his mind, and his fateful journey from t...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
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.
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....
An amateur film made about amateur film-makers. A new member is introduced to the work of the Aberdeen and District Cine Club.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
Tante Tille bor på en lille gård på landet. Da hun en dag finder en forladt ræveunge, tager hun den med hjem og kalder den Mikkel. Tilles nabo, Orla Olsen, er jæger, og da han en dag finder en fo...
Frankrig 1913. Gentlemantyven Philippe de Ledocq er aldrig blevet grebet på fersk gerning til stor ærgrelse for politiinspektør Fernand Maubert. Det lykkes dog politiinspektøren at fange Ledocqs m...