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....
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
The wedding of Jock Lyon and Lorna Duncan at Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, February 23rd 1928.
Family home life.
Film sponsored by Esso following the Scottish Rally of 1976. The rally begins in Ayrshire and takes in the Highlands. Interviews with various drivers at the roadside and after each stage is completed...
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
An experimental film in the form of a riddle by artist Gillian Steel.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
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...
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...
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...
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
Newsreels showing the aftermath of the Second World War
Newsreels showing the aftermath of the Second World War
News items about the funeral of King of Belgium, Albert I.
Half a century of history on the pages of the famous comic magazine “Il corriere dei piccoli”.
This film (originally 1,537 meters) was previously considered completely lost, until the discovery of this 345-meters fragment in the Filmoteca de Valencia. It affords a rare opportunity to obse...
Following a few references to geometry in painting prior to the Renaissance, the film focuses on the discovery of perspective, a fundamental chapter in the history of figurative art. With the ne...
Spyros (Manos Katrakis), a political refugee, returns to his homeland in his old age after many years in exile. His return is thorny, as even his wife (Ntora Volanaki) is like a stranger to him. Spyro...
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Maf...
INDHOLD: 00:02:00 Kongeskibet Dannebrog ankommer til Grenp. Ebeltoft fylder 650 år i 1951. 00:03:50 Dronning Ingrid besøger "Kronprinsesse Ingrids feriehjem for sønderjyske børn". 00:06:02 Kongesk...