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.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
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...
Hostels at Loch Ard, Inverbeg and Rowardennan, with footage of hostellers climbing Ben Lomond and the Cobbler, canoeing on Loch Lomond and enjoying a dance.
Sponsored by Glasgow Corporation Education Committee, this educational film introduces the chief tools used by the carpenter.
St. Enoch Station, Glasgow, with various steam locomotives in the station.
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...
A documentary, narrated and directed by Sean Connery, on the turbulent industrial relations of the workforce of Fairfield's shipyard on the Clyde during the mid 1960s.
Various scenes of Glasgow including Glasgow University, the Cathedral, Sauchiehall Street, Singer's factory, John Brown's shipyard and Hampden Park football stadium.
The Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
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The Mayor of the Liberation The funeral of the former Mayor of Bologna, Giuseppe Dozza. Footage showing his body lying in State, a great many people paying their respects to the deceased; followed by ...
[Visit by Archbishop Antonio Poma] Bologna, 11 September 1967. A car stopping in front of Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Via Indipendenza. Archbishop Antonio Poma getting out of a car, prelates kissing ...
Der Witwer Paul Kromberger lebt mit seiner erwachsenen Tochter Sophie in Deutschland. Eines Tages entdeckt er im Internet zufällig ein Foto einer US-amerikanischen Opernsängerin, welches das Leben d...
Als der isländische Dorfbewohner Elías in einem Gletscher zufällig ein Flugzeugwrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entdeckt, ahnt er nicht, dass er einer streng geheimen Militäraktion der US-Armee in ...
Cristi, ein rumänischer Polizist, der als Informant für die Mafia tätig ist, geht nach La Gomera, um eine alte Pfeifsprache zu lernen. Denn in Rumänien wird er von der Polizei überwacht, und mit ...
Luxemburg, Mitte der 1980er Jahre. Gerade erst hatte der 18-jährige Frank sein Coming-Out. Um seine Homosexualität ungestört ausleben zu können, flüchtet er aus der bürgerlichen Umgebung seines ...