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.
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.
American film crew in Finland making a tourist film in colour. Technology students mark the 60th birthday of industrialist Wilhelm Wahlforss by offering him a helicopter flight from his villa in Toppe...
Marathon walk, Finland v. Sweden at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Football match, Finland v. Brazil, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Finland’s first cat show at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Padasjoki Natural Park....
Funeral of Unto-Pekka Matikainen, the Finnish soldier who was killed in Cyprus, at the Hietaniemi cemetery. Press conference of the national peatland forest competition at Oulunsalo in Helsinki (KOP b...
The Ambassador of the United Arab Republic presents his credentials to the president. A Volga car is donated to Kekkonen. World Shooting Championships in Moscow (foreign material). ‘Dream kitchen’...
The British ambassador presents his credentials to the President of the Republic. Hyvinkää Church (designed by Aarno Ruusuvuori) is inaugurated. Railway museum at the Helsinki Railway Station. Stati...
Local museum in Hauho. Exhibition ‘Someone is waiting for your letter’. American artist Mr Leaf visiting the WSOY publishing company. New first-class grill restaurant Ostia in Helsinki. Polish sea...
‘Building the summer’ exhibition in Helsinki. 45th anniversary of the Finnish Air Force. 310th anniversary of the Viipurilainen osakunta student nation. Cinema organisation Filmiaura’s press con...
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...