The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
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...
(Reel 1) Albert Cathedral, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H D B Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle cross...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
A history of the Eastwood area in Glasgow, and footage of new community building developments in the early 1970s.
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Irja von Bernstorff in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Sangay Rinchen (rechts) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
"The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Sangay Rinchen (links) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Irja von Bernstorff (2.v.r.), Sangay Rinchen (rechts) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
"The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Ginger and her friend Rosa was born on the same day at the same hospital and here lies the reason for their friendship which they cherish throughout their childhood. Politically, The Cold War is high ...
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
An amateur film compilation around the Borders. Includes footage of a visit to Duns by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rt. Rev Dr. James A. Simpson, a 250th annive...
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
The wedding of Jock Lyon and Lorna Duncan at Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, February 23rd 1928.
Teenagers voice their opinions on stereotypes and the issue of equality.