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...
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.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
An illustration of the various outdoor activities by youth groups at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
[Visit by Archbishop Antonio Poma] Bologna, 11 September 1967. A car stopping in front of Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Via Indipendenza. Archbishop Antonio Poma getting out of a car, prelates kissing ...
For his documentary film, Werner Herzog traveled to the McMurdo research station on Ross Island in Antarctica at the invitation of the American National Science Foundation. Here he was the first offic...
Documentary made in Sweden for Belgian audiences after the sudden death of Queen Astrid.
Until today one of the most mysterious figures in Italian cinema has been, without a doubt, Lucio D’Ambra. Recent finds of his works permit a more accurate outline of a personality capable of ...
President of the Government of Catalonia, Francesc Macià, reads a fragment of his address on the occasion of the opening of the Parliament of Catalonia on 6 December 1932. On 25 October of that same ...
The Big Other Of all people, the television presenter Gregory, a convinced atheist, is sent to Rome to report on the upcoming election of the new pope. In the eternal city he meets Maria, with whom he...
Eighth film about the Bavarian village cop Franz Eberhofer, based on the novels by Rita Falk. This time, the officer's tenth service anniversary celebration is overshadowed by all kinds of adversity. ...
German propaganda documentary about the operations of the U-35, a German U-boat during World War One. This is a French version, together with the British version, released in november 1918.