Two amateur films. The first is a comedy based around a sketch by Bob Newhart, 'The Driving Instructor', in which a learner driver's dangerous driving attracts the attention of the police. The secon...
Calders Amateur Camera Club films compilation.
Amateur footage of members of the Scottish Mountaineering Club climbing in the snow-covered mountains around Crianlarich.
Family holiday footage in Perthshire, including shots of fishing on lochs.
Amateur footage of a group of climbers on the hills around Crianlarich on a frozen winter day.
Amateur footage of a journey by a Scottish couple working in the jute industry in Calcutta (now Kolkata), returning home on leave on the Italian liner 'Asia' from Bombay (now Mumbai) through the Suez ...
News footage of RAF De Havilland Chipmunk training aircraft in flight.
News footage of a test flight from Prestwick Airport of a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer with modified wings, for specialist use as a survey aircraft by the Rio Tinto Finance & Exploration Co.
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...