Newsreel for main events in 1939, footage plus frequent intertitles.
Chronological documentary over two years of the construction of the Royal Commonwealth pool in Edinburgh, from a greenfield site.
General views Queen visiting survivors of the 1881 'Wet Review' in 1952. Occasional flashback scene.
General views Hopetoun estate, West Lothian.
Britain's Motor Industry Jubilee 1896 - 1946, held in Edinburgh. A 'Pageant of Progress' displays a variety of cars.
Images of lighthouses with eerie, otherworldly synthesiser music - no speech in the film apart from the shipping forecast.
Religious procession at Carfin in Lanarkshire with a large gathering of onlookers.
St Margaret's Pilgrimage; general views of a procession through streets of Dunfermline. [see also ref. 6870].
Reportage about the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Germany and Prince Ernst Augustus of Cumberland.
Episode of the series "Aviation in Brescia": airplane exercises featuring the pilots Curtiss, Rougier, Calderara, Blériot and Cobianchi.
(Reel 1) Off the British coast, U-boat 32 attacks merchant ships. The German captain, Stackmeyer, is saluted by his Admiral, who warns that the blockade of Britain will be tightened; later, the U-boat...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
This documentary puts together different moments of Pier Antonio Quarantotto Gambini’s poetic journey, pausing on the only work in verse by this writer from Trieste, “Racconto d'amore” (Lo...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on the funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen ('the Red Baron') at Bertangles, Western Front, 22nd April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
On board of a German battleship.
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
The curtain goes up on the cartoon to introduce the two characters. They set out on patrol from a police station. The dog sees a cat and chases it over rough ground and through a sewer pipe. The handl...
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
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...