Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
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...
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...
Shopping in Glasgow. Fruit and vegetables being selected for delivery to local stores.
A survey of Aberdeen's industries, including shipbuilding, granite quarrying, fishing, papermaking, textiles and light engineering.
The Gathering at Glenfinnan in the Highlands to mark the 200th anniversary of raising the standard of James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
An illustration of the various outdoor activities by youth groups at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms.
Views of Benmore House and Estate, gifted by H.G. Younger as a forestry and botany demonstration area with some of the activities given to forestry trainees.
(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
I. (Reel 1) Mainly unrelated scenes. A British 6-inch 26cwt (?) howitzer. Turkish prisoners being searched by British troops. A dressing station with Indian orderlies, a motor ambulance and a doctor p...
The ruins of Babylon, concentrating on the Temple of E'Sagilo and the basalt lion statue, including some close-up views of relief carvings and mouldings. This is followed by a panorama of Baghdad, fro...
I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed wearing a cap, then a sun helmet. II. Major-General W Gillman, chief of staff of the MEF. III. Major-General H T Brooking, comma...
The film starts with a slow pan of a Fly Class river gunboat, probably HMS Caddis Fly. An Insect Class gunboat, HMS Moth, which is larger, is moored by the riverbank, and bombards the area with its 6-...
Branislav Trifunovi?, David Thornton (v.l.n.r.)
Maggie Peren, Ken Duken (v.l.n.r.)
The material was mainly used in the WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA series. It opens with two Holt tractors of 13th Indian Division hauling a 6-inch 30cwt (?) howitzer across the Narim River at Narim K...
A limbered 13-pounder battery followed by a vehicle column. Soldiers standing beside one of the cars in the column hold up a written notice for the camera "Norton's Column". This is probably the colum...
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...
Two 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns firing on raised platforms. An 18-pounder field gun behind scrim netting firing. A senior officer (possibly Major-General C J Briggs) decorating British soldiers. An ...
Axel Milberg, Nicolette Krebitz, Sunnyi Melles (v.l.n.r.)
A tour of the Mavor and Coulson Bridgeton works, Glasgow,
The manufacture of SCWS cigarettes and tobacco at the Co-op's Shieldhall factory, Glasgow.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.