In the Soviet Union of 1937, a boy from Greece meets and becomes friends with a boy from Georgia.
Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
A family holiday around Firth of Clyde and beyond on various boats. Includes a trip to Belfast and a trip 'Doon The Watter' on the Waverley.
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.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
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...
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.
Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]
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...
Russian war drama about the love between a peasant girl and a Russian prince at the time of the Russian (February) Revolution in 1917. As a young peasant girl, Mary Warren (Geraldine Farrar) is being ...
Amateur footage of the last day of tram services on the streets of Glasgow, and the evening display of Glasgow's historic trams.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
Amateur footage of a coach trip from Glasgow to Rome, travelling through France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria on the way.
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961. Featuring their Cyclone furnace for firing coal at work; the Renfrew staff association magazine going to pre...
Life on Marywell Farm during the first years of the Taggart family's occupancy.
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
I anledning af filmens 100 års fødselsdag i 1996 producerede Det Britiske Filminstitut en serie dokumentarfilm instrueret af kendte filmfolk fra hele verden. Stephen Frears tager fat på briternes h...
For blot 30-40 år siden var Vestjylland præget af fattigdom og isolation. I dag er området økonomisk på omgangshøjde med resten af landet, nye ideer afprøves indenfor uddannelse og erhvervsliv ...
Videobåndet rummer to film. Først Jannik Hastrups tegnefilm: En elegant visuel fortolkning af Jacob Gades »Tango Jalousie" fra 1925, der med lidenskab og patos udtrykker jalousiens drama. En ældre...
Direktør Rasmussen har en kone, en søn og en datter. Med de to sidste kommer han udmærket ud af det, derimod kniber det en smule med konen. Den gode fru Rasmussen er nu også en ualmindelig vanskel...
Om to søstre, der efter en autoritær opdragelse i barndommens præstehjem har udviklet sig vidt forskelligt. Begge vil de ændre verden, men den ene er klar over at det tager tid - hun er blevet jou...
Til en fredelig lille by kommer en dag to musikanter, Fy og Bi, de er lige ved at blive arresteret, da man ikke tåler støj på gaderne, men en ung sagfører hjælper dem ud af kniben og skaffer dem ...
To unge kriminelle gengangere får i retten behandlet deres anholdelse og opretholdt varetægten 3 gange 24 timer. Distriktsbetjenten arbejder i sit område og lærer derved sit klientel og dets adfæ...
Susanne bor med sin mand, der er læge og deres to teenage-børn i det sydlige Frankrig. Hendes indholdsløse overklasseliv gør hende deprimeret og hun beslutter sig for at begynde at genoptage sit a...