A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
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...
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...
A family holiday around Firth of Clyde and beyond on various boats. Includes a trip to Belfast and a trip 'Doon The Watter' on the Waverley.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
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.
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
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.
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...
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...
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....
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....
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
Nel numero speciale dedicato al cinema italiano, dichiarazioni di De Filippo, Blasetti, De Sica sul futuro del nostro cinema e sulla possibilità che attori stranieri lavorino sui set italiani. Il ser...
Zum Gedenken an die Deportation der Juden aus Berlin versammelt sich im Jahr 2005 eine Gruppe Menschen am Berliner S-Bahnhof Wannsee. Unter ihnen Nina und Ruth, die 1943 ab Grunewald nach Ausschwitz t...
The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film Synopsis: The year 1814: After Napoleon was forced into exile, the regents of Europe negotiate the future of the continent at the Congress of V...
An investigation of the problem of backstreet abortion in Italy.
Le varie fasi della preparazione e stampa di un giornale, seguendo l'iter dal momento in cui la notizia di cronaca viene comunicata in redazione per telescrivente sino all'uscita del giornale ne...
Marcello Casartelli è un acrobata, appartiene di una famosa famiglia di circensi che ha abbandonato dopo che una notte, in un incendio, tre dei suoi figli morirono. Adesso con la moglie Erminia...
La voce fuori campo, con accento dialettale, è quella di un emigrato del sud Italia in America, che racconta come la prima cosa che all'estero si rimpiange della madrepatria sia l'olio. Si vede...
The problems of racial integration in the time of the Black Panthers.