The sculptor Benno Schotz at work in his studio in Glasgow, and demonstrating his technique. The film examines his working methods and the themes running through his work. Much of his work is as a m...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
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...
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...
The sisters of an emir spend their holidays on Rhodes, where they fall in love with two young men who do not know who the girls are. The two sons of a businessman flirt with two models, who they think...
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. Mexico's ambassador to Spain, Colonel Adalberto Tejeda, reads a message from his government which reaffirms its support for the Spanish Re...
Towards the end of the war, Eleni (Afroditi Grigoriadou) meets Kostas (Vyron Pallis) a guerilla who is sought by the Germans. One night, the partisan, who is wounded, arrives at the house of his broth...
A girl doesn’t know if she is the foster- or natural daughter of captain Andreas. She becomes engaged to captain Alexis, despite the reactions of the latter’s mother. Her fiancé, after an acciden...
Episode of the monthly series of stories from the book Cuore of Edmondo De Amicis. In the town hall there is a solemn ceremony of handing over the medal for civil valor. The winner is a Piedmont boy w...
85-year old Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) at work in his home Ainola. Press conference at the Finnish Cultural Foundation on the Sibelius Medal (Wäinö Aaltonen, Dr Puntila). First Sibelius Medal present...
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....