Progress of the construction work on Iona Abbey is seen through the eyes of Hector Ross, a young minister and John Kane, a carpenter.
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
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.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
A trip to Ireland, including County Wicklow and Dublin, a steamer trip to Iona and Staffa, and a Gala Day procession in Crieff.
Amateur footage showing aspects of life on Iona during the early 1930s. Includes holiday footage showing a family enjoying swimming and sunbathing with friends.
Amateur footage shot around Iona and possibly Outer Hebridean islands c1920s, featuring many beach/sea scenes and notably, a puffer being loaded with cargo [possibly peat/coal?] from horse drawn carts...
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Irmin Schmidt in "Can and Me" (2022)
"The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Christobal Farais, Rifka Lodeizen in "Messi and Maud" (2017)
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
A trip to Ireland, including County Wicklow and Dublin, a steamer trip to Iona and Staffa, and a Gala Day procession in Crieff.
Amateur footage showing aspects of life on Iona during the early 1930s. Includes holiday footage showing a family enjoying swimming and sunbathing with friends.
Amateur footage shot around Iona and possibly Outer Hebridean islands c1920s, featuring many beach/sea scenes and notably, a puffer being loaded with cargo [possibly peat/coal?] from horse drawn carts...
Activities inside Community House, Glasgow, as seen by a visiting teenage couple. Dr. George MacLeod is interviewed, and the young couple are given a tour of the building and its facilities. Young p...
A visit to Staffa in the Western Isles on board a steamer, tourists discover the island, Iona Abbey and Fingal's Cave.
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.
General views of the island of Iona and its inhabitants.