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...
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....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
Amateur family footage of various locations, including Ayr, Rothesay, the Dunoon area and Gare Loch.
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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.
A Bensen B-8B gyro-boat being tested on Loch Lomond.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
Enrique Fiss in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Maartje Pasman, Enrique Fiss in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Enrique Fiss, Benny Techen (left to right) in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
"Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Swetlana Alexjewitsch in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
A drama / documentary about the Civil Defence services during wartime Edinburgh, this film contains shots of the messenger Corps in action alerting all services during ARP - including the system used ...
Camping week-ends in the Highlands with the Lomond Mountaineer Club, one of several workers' "weekender" groups.
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...
An advert for Guthrie's mutton showing that only the best sheep are selected.
Young people enjoying various activities at Butlin's camp at Ayr. The purpose of the venture was to bring young Scots face to face with leaders in public life.
Lothian's coastal industries: fishing ports at Granton and Newhaven and the docks at Leith and Bo'ness. Its mining industries: shale mining by open-cast methods and a new pit at Bo'ness. Some of th...
The changing forces in the traditional borderland; in the fishing and textile industries, farming, forestry and housing.
The progress of the building of the Ravenscraig Steelworks in Lanarkshire over three years from 1954, from site clearance until the first steel is produced. Copyright: Corus Group Ltd.