A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
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...
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 ...
I. The film contrasts quotes from a German newspaper given as 'Westphalia Daily News' reporting the damage or destruction of prominent landmarks in the centre of London with film of those places taken...
Family Christmas from the mid 1960s.
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...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
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 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...
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...
The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The ceremony takes place in a field, with men of Plumer's staff watching as he pins medals for bravery onto women officers of the Queen Alexandra's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Voluntary Aid Det...
President Kekkonen in Lapland. President Kekkonen travels to Iceland. Sir Tito Winyi, King of Uganda, visits Finland. Mr Karam buys square timber for Egypt in Finland. Passenger liner Arcadia in Helsi...
Sports events in 1961: Lahti Ski Games. European Championships in speed skating at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki. Figure skating. Basketball: Finland v. Denmark. Boxing: Finland v. Sweden. Handball:...
Black Hills-bjergene vest for Wounded Knee er smukke turistattraktioner i dag ¿ for 100 år siden var området skueplads for massakren på Sioux-indianerne. I filmen følges dels en amerikansk famili...
Denne prisvindende portrætfilm om Velvet Undergrounds frontfigur og Andy Warhols yndlingsblondine Nico giver et usminket men respektfuldt indblik i hendes omvæltende liv fra feteret Vogue-fotomodel ...
Da den svenskfødte sanger Jussi Björling døde i 1960, blot 49 år gammel, havde han opnået et internationalt renommé som en af operahistoriens største tenorer. Og som en af Enrico Carusos få v�...
Som selvlært sanger var den danskfødte Helge Rosvænge (1897-1972) noget af en ener blandt operatenorernes verdenselite. Efter debuten i 1921 virkede Rosvænge mest i Tyskland og Østrig, hvor han m...
Den danskfødte sanger Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973) regnes som en af operahistoriens førende heltetenorer. Efter debuten i »Tannhäuser" i 1918 blev Melchior især kendt som Wagner-fortolker, idet h...
Report on the Nordic art project FLYING CONCRETE in Copenhagen from July 23th to September 15th, 1984. Artists represented: Greenland: Jessie Christensen. Finland: Pekka Nevaleinen / Hannu Siren. Swed...