Der New Yorker Musiker Robert scheint so etwas wie eine Pechsträhne zu haben: Künstlerisch steckt er in einer Schaffenskrise und materiell sieht es so finster aus, dass er sogar aus seiner Wohnung g...
One day, on the island of Lesbos, a shepherd by the name of Lamonas finds an abandoned little boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. The shepherd calls the boy Dafnis and takes him as his own chil...
Wild flowers at Umanak, Greenland and the Governor of Greenland gives a coffee party.
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...
Scenes at a local fete attended by prospective and sitting Unionist MPs. A baby contest, rifle shooting and fortune telling are amongst the amusements on offer.
Made as a promotional film for screening at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, it documents the history and industries of the town of Falkirk.
Filmed by Norman McLaren and Willie J. MacLean, it shows a day in the life of the Glasgow School of Art. [Awarded SAFF prize].
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.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
A few lines about a few minutes' peace of mind, made visible: I am half in a dream / half awake / when I'm left all alone/ all at peace / then I know / more than I thought / I knew / about the deeper ...
A crowd is standing on a deserted plain. One man is considered a threat to the others because of his arm, which is hitting him uncontrollably. The crowd has to deal with the problem. After discussing ...
Drozdov talk of his understanding of 'freedom'. He compares present freedom as it used to be in the Ukraine; he describes how close friendships, earlier as now, create a space in which a feeling of fr...
Det er ikke nemt at være god, når man har brugt et helt liv på en karriere som superskurk. Men Gru gør forsøget af hensyn til sine tre adoptivdøtre. Han sætter endog sin fastansatte, gale viden...
A Parisian fugitive from the 1871 Commune of Paris uprising, Babette, a fine cook, is taken into the poor fishing village home of two puritanical spinsters who consider food beyond oatmeal almost sinf...
Where is the spring roll? Is China now open to travellers? In 1984 somebody wrote to a newspaper: 'The smaller towns in China are closed - you can only see the rice farmer from the train window'. Coul...
Based on Bjarne Reuter's 1975 juvenile novel, even broader comedy strokes are employed in the film version, but bright spark Bertram is still at the center of things when a nice but dubious uncle (he ...
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