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...
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....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
Melodrama over een verliefd stel dat door armoede uit elkaar wordt gedreven.
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
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.
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
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...
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
Newsreel item on the commemoration of the First World War.
Promotiefilm over de werking van de Post. Na een kort intro over het ontstaan van de post (met beelden van een tam-tam, verwijzing naar de koeriers van Romeinse keizers etc.) volgt een fictieve proloo...
Reportage over de huldeviering aan Cyriel Buysse op het stadhuis van Brussel. Eerst zien we enkele opnamen van de schrijver Cyriel Buysse. Hij loopt naar de camera toe en neemt zijn hoed af, waarschij...
A visit ot the World fair of 1958, seen through the eyes of a child.
Deze aflevering bestaat uit 2 delen. Het 1e toont het bewerken met de choreograaf van een bepaalde scne in functie van gevoel en beeldkader. De opnameleider, script-girl en Demy zelf vertellen over he...
The supernatural world is the topic of this documentary: parapsychology breaks down certain phenomena (telepathy, telekinesis) which appear to come from a different world but actually have a rat...
A fairy tale set at the beginning of the 1800s: in each of the five episodes the author uses the style of different Hungarian naive painters.
The communal council of a commune in the Brussels outskirts discusses plans for the construction of a new city.