A young vaudevillian ventriloquist attempts to charm a drunken audience with his song. Can Herman sing?
A spoof study of a Scottish Asian entrepreneur who runs a marriage bureau using video instructions. The film examines the problems of traditional Asian values set in a British context.
Large, hairy urisks used to live in the waterfalls of the Scottish Highlands. One day a baby one gets into a house. Chaos reigns until family resourcefulness - from both sides - gets him out.
One local community in Glasgow [Govanhill] go to extraordinary lengths to save their local pool when they began what was to become the longest occupation of a public building in British history.
The film documents an all but forgotten piece of Scottish social history, the story of the Irish tattie howkers who for decades provided labour for Scottish farmers. Through a narrative weaved out of...
Amateur footage of activities near Razmak army training camp, a base for the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Waziristan on the North-West Frontier of India around the start of WW2.
Amateur footage of soldiers practising mortar firing near Razmak army training camp, a base for the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Waziristan on the North-West Frontier of India around the start o...
Amateur footage of a bomb-damaged city in Germany at the end of World War II.
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.
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 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...
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...
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...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.