A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
Mr. Anestis, an old coachman, doesn’t want to change professions, even though cars now rule the road. He lives together with an orphan girl, Annoula, who was the beloved of a boy named Nikos, who ha...
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....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
A record of the renovation work on the Bellhaven cafe, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, between 1948 to 1955; shows the work of masons, joiners, glaziers and the Cocozza family on the new Cafe, and the interest o...
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
An illustration of the various outdoor activities by youth groups at Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms.
The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".
Informative overview of horse-drawn carriages as a means of transport in Edinburgh from Victorian times to more recent times (milk delivery). Illustrated with dramatised sequences and information on ...
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.
Den gamle brygger Steffensen har kun to passioner: bryggeriet, der er gået i arv til ham fra slægt til slægt, og hvis traditioner han derfor holder højt, og datteren, hvis yndige ansigt er det udt...
Moderne dans opvises i studie. Seks elegante par danser "Maksice I Tivoli rives der ned og nyt bygges op. Man forbereder den ny sæson. Det ny Paladsteater rejser sig Dyrtidsmærker afhentes på Købe...
Den berygtede storforbryder Jacques Collin - kaldet "Den hvide Djævel" - som i nogen tid har siddet indespærret i et tugthus udenfor Paris, har i al stilhed forberedt sin flugt. Endelig en dag finde...
Legendary satire of Hollywood with Gloria Swanson as a former star of silent film who hopes to use an opportunistic young scriptwriter for her comeback.
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Syge- og ulykkesforsikringsagent Schwindelmeyer er en meget smart herre, og hans hustru, Fru Adelaide, står ikke tilbage for ham i smartness. Da Schwindelmeyer hurtig er bleven klar over, at det er e...
Den unge student Jacob Pors, der er ansat som huslærer for godsejer Jesper Nørholms småbørn, er hemmelig forlovet med godsejerens ældste datter, Agnete. Hver aften, når skoletimerne er sluttede,...
Det er i efteråret engang i 1800-tallet. Ejeren af gæstgiverstedet, Hotel "Paradis", i den lille by Kirchhausen, Heinrich Schultze, befinder sig i en meget trykket økonomisk situation, da han ikke ...