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.
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.
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band leading, marching into Bethlehem (poor quality film). II. Allenby's visit to Bethlehem, 25 December 1917. He can be seen among...
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
Records a trip to South Africa made by Nat and Nettie McGavin. Includes places such as Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Sea Point, Pretoria, the Vaal River, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the Victori...
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...
Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...
Dokumentarfilm über ein ungewöhnliches Projekt des Musikers Heinz Ratz, mit dem er auf die schwierige Situation politischer Flüchtlinge in Deutschland aufmerksam machen will: Gemeinsam mit seiner B...
Il film descrive la nascita e le prime due ere della storia della Terra: le origini, circa quattro miliardi di anni fa; l'era arcaica, caratterizzata da un'intensa attività vulcanica che porta ...
Yoshi Heimrath, Leif Alexis, Jochen Laube, Kirsten Niehuus, Oliver Zeller, Fabian Maubach (standing, left to right), Welket Bungué, Burhan Qurbani, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges, Albrecht Schuch (sitting, l...
Dokumentarisches Porträt über Hans Peter Geerdes alias H.P. Baxxter und seine Band Scooter, die als Pionier des Techno-Pop gilt, dabei aber auch stark polarisiert. Mit Songs wie "Hyper! Hyper!" oder...
Godehard Giese, Markus Reinecke (Erfttal Film), Tom Schilling, Lilla Puskas (Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg), Pola Friedrichs, Karoline Herfurth, Andreas Berger (DOP), director Christopher Doll, Magda...
Dokumentarfilm über die Erfolgsgeschichte des Gitarrenherstellers Duesenberg: Die Instrumente der deutschen Firma werden seit Jahrzehnten von Musikern in aller Welt hoch geschätzt. Der Gitarrenbauer...
Gertrud Bredel (front), Eva Maria Schneider, Eva Maria Bayerwaltes, Rüdiger Weigang, Dieter Schaad, Sabine Wagner, Gabriele Blum, Marita Breuer (grown ups standing, from left to right), Frank Kleid (...
Eva van Leeuwen, David Zimmerschied, Jakob Claussen, Christina Bentlage, Michael Kessler, Jana Pallaske, Tim Oliver Schultz (standing from left to right), Alexander Schubert, Laura Roge, Tim Trachte, ...