Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
Everyday life in the crofting community of Acharacle, Lochaber, in the 1950s.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
A camping expedition by an uncle and his nephew, showing the do's and don'ts of the countryside code.
An amateur film compilation around the Borders. Includes footage of a visit to Duns by The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rt. Rev Dr. James A. Simpson, a 250th annive...
Amateur cine film featuring days out around the east coast and borders of Scotland in the 1970s. Includes footage of a canal trip on the 'Queen of the Borders', a day at Edinburgh Zoo, train rides a...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
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...
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, ...