Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
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.
A tour through various exhibitions in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Long time ago a composer looses his wife dying in childbirth. He gets a daughter but at the same time looses his ability to compose. Now, 16 years later, the father is still punishing his daughter for...
A Parisian fugitive from the 1871 Commune of Paris uprising, Babette, a fine cook, is taken into the poor fishing village home of two puritanical spinsters who consider food beyond oatmeal almost sinf...
Den skønne prinsesse Lola er fordrevet fra sit hjemland Pelikanien, hvor en af hendes slægtninge på underfundig vis har tilranet sig magten. Vi ser hende nu som Revy-Teatrets fejrede primadonna, de...
Once again, chiller director Martin Schmidt ("Final Hour") works with writer Dennis Jürgensen to make your blood run cold. This time, Schmidt has four university students take over the house of someb...
Trent Carter er 13 år. Han bor med sin familie i det sydøstlige Australien. Trent begyndte at kaste med boomerang, da han var to år, og hans drøm er at blive verdensmester. Dokumentarfilmen følge...
Løven Alex er hovedattraktionen i New Yorks zoologiske have og har det godt her sammen med sine venner, zebraen Marty, giraffen Melman og flodhesten Gloria.Marty vil til gengæld gerne udforske verde...
Flere og flere børn løber hjemmefra. De kan være smidt ud eller være på flugt fra konflikter i hjemmet. Derfor oprettede Københavns kommune i midten af 70-erne en døgnkontakt for børn og unge ...
En klasse skolebørn skal skrive fristil om deres besøg på en chokoladefabrik, hvor de har set de forskellige trin af produktionen. Chokolade laves af kakaobønner. Disse kommer fra Afrika og Sydame...