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.)
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...
An amateur newreel about Bonnybridge in the early 1980s. Features children walking for the bus, the annual Scout camp at Barr Wood, clearing the banks of the Forth and Canal, and the Bonnybridge Gala...
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...
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...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
Two thousand years of Bonnybridge's history is crammed into this amateur film, which also explores the town in 1974, when the film was made. Footage includes children playing and returning from schoo...
A compilation of local newsreel items from Orkney including visit of US Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels, a fund-raising sports event in 1918, the unveiling of Kirkwall War Memorial in 1954, and ...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
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...
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...
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...
The wedding of Christina Maxwell Russell and James Chalmers MacKnight at Bridge of Earn. 12th June, 1928.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
Laci and Józsi, the two brothers, left their home to see the wide world in October 1956. Their adventurous journey takes them to Egypt. They end up in a reformatory school, from where they escape, ge...
Family Christmas from the mid 1960s.
One day, on the island of Lesbos, a shepherd by the name of Lamonas finds an abandoned little boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. The shepherd calls the boy Dafnis and takes him as his own chil...
Follows the children of Nairn Marshall getting into trouble around the house on Christmas Eve.