The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
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.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
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.
A tour through various exhibitions in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Climb by cable car, then panorama over the valley and portrait of the family.
The Glasgow Catholic Scouters' Guild Triennial Pilgrimage to Lourdes 1961. General views of the long journey, the boys helping at Mass, the Stations of the Cross, and Procession of the Blessed Sacram...
Celebration in Celtic Park, Glasgow, to mark the centenary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Christine is quadriplegic and bound to a wheelchair. Searching for a cure, but also looking for a way out of her deeply felt isolation, she takes a pilgrimage to Lourdes, fuelled by her overwhelming w...
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)
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
An amateur film compilation around the Borders. Includes footage of a visit to Duns by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rt. Rev Dr. James A. Simpson, a 250th annive...
Shopping in Glasgow. Fruit and vegetables being selected for delivery to local stores.
A survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
The Gathering at Glenfinnan in the Highlands to mark the 200th anniversary of raising the standard of James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)