A film showing the 1953 Scottish Summer School in Archaeology in Dumfries where the group are shown various local Roman and Iron Age forts and settlements.
A holiday film in Dornoch in the Highlands, including a visit to Carnaig Cottage and Loch Maree.
This film records cake trimming and inspection work at North British Rayon Ltd, Jedburgh. Women are shown stacking the stillage trays, inspecting the cakes, and then packing using two methods. The s...
A demonstration of the stages and processes in relining a picture.
The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
Wild flowers at Umanak, Greenland and the Governor of Greenland gives a coffee party.
A look at Mackintosh's work, including his own house in Glasgow's Southpark Avenue, Scotland Street School, Cranston's Tea Rooms, and Glasgow's School of Art. [Viewing copy in colour].
Records a holiday journey through Japan in April - cherry blossom time. Shows peasants working in the fields cultivating tea and young girls diving for pearl oysters. Visits are paid to ancient Shin...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
The first flight over Mount Everest on 3rd April 1933, in two modified Westland Wallace bi-planes, piloted by early Scottish aviators, the Marquess of Clydesdale and Donald McIntyre. This daring feat...
Amateur footage of women working in an office in Glasgow city centre, and general views at Faslane on Gare Loch, including the liner Aquitania.
Overview of twenty one ante and post natal exercises through the combination of detailed intertitles and physical demonstration. Filming takes place at Rottenrow Maternity and Women's Hospital as wel...