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...
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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 camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
The wedding of Jock Lyon and Lorna Duncan at Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, February 23rd 1928.
Teenagers voice their opinions on stereotypes and the issue of equality.
An experimental film in the form of a riddle by artist Gillian Steel.
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...
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
The film shows traditional farm life i the 1950s in a rural village in Western Norway before the land reallocation.
Images of Tübingen: images of the 30th Liederfest of a Swabian choral society in Tübingen. Another pageant on 30 July 1910. Elephants of Circus Charles bathing in the river Neckar. Another pageant. ...
Opdrachtfilm voor de Belgisch-Luxemburgschen Dienst voor Toerisme: "...réalisé pour être projeté au Pavillon Belge de l'exposition de Paris de 1937"("Hommage à Henri Storck p. 39). Twee pancartes...
A visual travel diary on the expedition led by Brondeel in 1934. This expedition to Belgian Congo, by truck, became a testimony to the social conditions of Africans during the colonial era.
Eerst wordt de toenmalige crisis "gedurende vijf jaar reactionair beleid" in beeld gebracht. We zien karikaturen van liberale en katholieke politici en van bankiers (mogelijk zijn dit tekeningen van F...
Duitse propaganda documentaire over de operaties van de U-boot U-35 tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit is een Franse versie, samen met de Britse versie, uitgebracht in november 1918. Het schip Parkg...
Promotiefilm van het Rode Kruis over de hulp die gegeven wordt aan Belgische krijgsgevangenen in Duitsland. Openingstitel: "LA CROIX-ROUGE DE BELGIQUE PRESENTE: AU SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS. FILM REALI...
Film on the diversity of habitations in Belgium in the fifties.