Verfilmung der gleichnamigen Kinderbücher von Knister: Die junge Pia traut ihren Augen kaum, als sie in ihrem Baumhaus eines Tages ein seltsames Wesen entdeckt. Yoko, so der Name des Besuchers, ist w...
Dokumentarfilm über die Lebensgeschichte von José Antonio Gutierrez, der als einer der ersten 300.000 US-Soldaten in den Irak-Krieg geschickt wurde. Gutierrez kam dabei zu trauriger Berühmtheit, de...
Vor vielen Jahren verließ Yael Reuveny ihre Heimat Israel, um in Berlin zu leben und zu arbeiten. 15 Jahre später kehrt die Filmemacherin in ihr Geburtsland zurück, um herauszufinden, was aus ihren...
Immer wenn Conrad sich mit seinen Eltern trifft, müssen er und seine Frau sich Tiraden von seinem Vater Carl anhören. Darum beschränkt er die Besuche auf ein Minimum. Beim obligatorischen Geburtsta...
Jasper, ein kleiner Pinguinjunge, hat einen Traum: Er will die Welt jenseits seiner antarktischen Heimat kennen lernen. Die anderen Pinguine machen sich deshalb über ihn lustig, können sie sich doch...
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...
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
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...
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
Film sponsored by Esso following the Scottish Rally of 1976. The rally begins in Ayrshire and takes in the Highlands. Interviews with various drivers at the roadside and after each stage is completed...
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...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd between 1954 and 1961, it includes a tea party for members of staff held at Turnberry Hotel where they also play golf for the inter-...
Amateur footage of people in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, traffic on Great Western Road and street scenes in the city.
The sculptor Benno Schotz at work in his studio in Glasgow, and demonstrating his technique. The film examines his working methods and the themes running through his work. Much of his work is as a m...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
The annual get together of shepherds in Renfrewshire. This film shows work of shepherds and dogs in rounding up the sheep for clipping is shown, as is the correct way to shear, roll and tie the sheeps...
Amateur film of activities based around Craigie Street Police Office, headquarters of the Southern Division in Glasgow, towards the end of the war.
Amateur footage of the last day of tram services on the streets of Glasgow, and the evening display of Glasgow's historic trams.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...