Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insu...
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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
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.
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.
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Daily production report No. 24, 03 August 1958 on the shooting of "Der Stern von Santa Clara".
Brief an den Reichsminister des Innern Berlin vom 23.03.1931; rechtswidriger Entzug der Vorführungserlaubnis von "Frauennot - Frauenglück".
Daily production report No. 26, 15 August 1959 on the shooting of "Abschied von den Wolken" in Berlin (Tempelhof Military Airport).
Letter from CCC to Circus Krone, 27 May 1958, regarding the rental of animals for the shooting of "Ihr 106. Geburtstag".
National-Film-A.G., Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit !, Lichtbildbühne, 45, (1918).
Letter from CCC to Zoological Garden Lübeck, 30 May 1958 regarding the loan of three lions for the shooting of "Ihr 106. Geburtstag".
Costume excerpt for "Kampf um Rom. 1. Teil", part of "Julia" played by Ingrid Boulting.