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.
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.
Opnamen van het ruiterbeeld van koning Albert I. In de film zien we een serie korte opnamen, met soms zeer bruuske camerabewegingen. We zien het Albert monument: met en zonder een hijskraan in beeld...
Propagandafilm over de Koningskwestie. De film opent met de tweetalige titel "DE KONINGSKWESTIE - LA QUESTION ROYALE". Het samengaan van Nederlandstalige titels met Franstalige benadrukt duidelijk he...
Newsreels showing the aftermath of the Second World War
Newsreels showing the aftermath of the Second World War
Documentaire over het leven van koningin Elisabeth (1876 - 1965). Verschillende aspecten van het leven van koningin Elisabeth worden behandeld: haar jeugd in Beieren, het moederschap, de verschille...
Ditmaal wordt ingegaan op de werking van camera en licht. Uitvoerig beelden van werkopnamen, lichtmetingen, opstellen van lichtbronnen en interviews met cameraman en electriciens. Het oplossen van de ...
A railroadworker at his daily work. When he crosses the rails, his foot gets jammed in a switch. He desperately tries to pull out his foot. Suddenly, a train approaches. A mortal agony begins.
Dokumentarisches Porträt über Hans Peter Geerdes alias H.P. Baxxter und seine Band Scooter, die als Pionier des Techno-Pop gilt, dabei aber auch stark polarisiert. Mit Songs wie "Hyper! Hyper!" oder...
Yoshi Heimrath, Leif Alexis, Jochen Laube, Kirsten Niehuus, Oliver Zeller, Fabian Maubach (standing, left to right), Welket Bungué, Burhan Qurbani, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges, Albrecht Schuch (sitting, l...