Amateur footage of people in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, traffic on Great Western Road and street scenes in the city.
Glasgow scenes including shots of tenements, the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Green, St. Enoch's Station, Sauchiehall Street, Paddy's Market, the University, Templeton's carpet factory and Kelvingrove Ar...
Amateur footage of a residential drama course at Inverclyde House, Largs.
Plans for building new housing in Glasgow and encouraging skilled tradesmen to return to working at their old trades on building sites.
The city of Glasgow in the 1940s - its buildings, parks, museum, university and housing, showing the plans for major re-development of the city. Relates to issues proposed in the Bruce Report 1945 - a...
A tour through various exhibitions in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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.
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.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Mellem 1950 og 1980 fik drømmen om en højere levestandard mere end 400.000 mennesker til at immigrere fra Syditalien til Tyskland. De fleste regnede med at arbejde nogle år i det fremmede og dereft...
Swaziland i det sydlige Afrika er det sidste enevældige monarki på kontinentet. Landets overhoved er den 32-årige konge Mswati III, hvis far fik flere hundrede børn med sine mange koner. Sivdansen...
Kari Iveland er en kendt norsk sangerinde, men bag den solide karriere ligger et smertefuldt privatliv. Instruktøren følger som en flue-på-væggen Kari Ivelands arbejde med sin første soloplade »...
»Når krigen slutter" handler om nogle af følgerne af den sydafrikanske kamp mod Apartheid. BMW (Bonteheuwel Military Wing) er en selvforsvarsenhed dannet af teenagere i midten af firserne. Med to t...
En fortælling om to brødre, Ranvir og Rajeev Singh, som lever livet på kanten. Deres business er væddeløbsheste, og tempoet er i overhalingsbanen. <br>"Race" foregår i Syd Afrika og handle...
Alejandro bor i Zonen, en fashionabel bydel omringet af en høj mur. Her bor de rige og privilegerede beskyttet af private sikkerhedsfolk. Da et stort reklameskilt vælter ind over muren, kravler tre ...
Hvad sker der når man sætter to fyre der hader hinanden sammen? En sej telefonsælger Jimmy Cliff, en desi wannabe gangster Bachchan Pande og tilføjer for god ordens skyld en smuk pige Pooja, som i...
Den ene er lige blevet fyret fra sit job. Den anden lige fyret af sin kæreste. Begge tager de til "Syndens By", Las Vegas, for at få en sjov aften i byen. De to fremmede vågner op i samme seng og o...