Documentary examining womens' experience of leisure-time in the Edinburgh area.
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...
Perugia and its Italian University for foreign students.
The story of the transport of logs from the forest areas of East Pakistan to the Khulna Newsprint Mill eighty miles up river.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".
A film interpretation of the poem 'The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Margaret Tait reads the poem throughout the film.
Fortælling om to zoolog-tvillingebrødre (titlen hentyder også til ordet zoo), deres eksperimenter med forrådnelsesprocessen hos døde dyr og deres forhold til en (efterhånden) benløs kvinde.
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Bakers baking bread, children singing a Gaelic song and fishermen fishing for lobsters on the island of Tiree. (Both men were given start up funding from the Highlands and Islands Development Board)
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Komödie aus der Theaterwelt (englisch, später
synchron.)
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...
Dokumentarfilm. En skildring af grønlandske sæljægere
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.
(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...
"Two Raging Grannies" is a documentary that challenges the idea that we must continue to shop, consume, amass, and keep the economy growing. Armed with courage, humor, a long friendship and a zest for...
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...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.