Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
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.
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insu...
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 ...
(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...
Women exercising during a keep-fit class.
(Reel 1) The arsenal entrance in Beresford Square, with the internal train taking the workers to various departments. Women and boys in the Tailors' Shop make gloves, felt "buttons" for 15-inch shells...
A tour of the principal centres in Scotland for road and rail networks - Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Report on the visit of several Congolese politicians to Brussels.
War-time report, probably broadcasted in July-August 1919.
Documentary on the necessity of safeguarding industrial archeological sites in Belgium.
Documentary about the reorganisation of the sewers in Brussels.
The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: The sailor Freddy is on the run: In Genoa, he was involved in a drunken stabbing that left one person dead. Now Freddy is wanted by t...
“Gamba di Legno” è il nome con cui vengono chiamati i tram su rotaie a vapore di Milano. Tale nome deriva da un incidente verificatosi nei primi anni di utilizzo del mezzo, quando un tranvi...
Porto Ulisse non esiste sulle carte geografiche: è un villaggio di pescatori che sorge sulla riva di Ognina alla periferia di Catania. Qui, secondo le leggende locali, approdò Ulisse per cerca...
La vita nel porto di Napoli, una delle parti più caratteristiche della città, raccontata da un vecchio pescatore. L'edificio dell'Immacolatella, una volta il più importante del porto, è stat...