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...
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
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...
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.
The intimate story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago.
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
A promotional film for George Waterston and Sons of Edinburgh, Wax Chandlers. This film shows interiors and machinery of the firm's old wax making factory at St. John's Hill, just prior to demolition....
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.
Kursen er sat med udlængsel og eventyrlyst mod eksotiske havne som Phuket - Cochin/Baypore - Salalah - Mits'Iwa - Suez/Port Said, mod Thailand, Indien, Oman, Eritrea og Ægypten. Nordkaperen er bygge...
Rod Kimble har en drøm: Han vil gerne banke sin stedfar og blive en berømt stuntman som sin rigtige far... Rod har to drømme: Han vil gerne banke sin stedfar, blive en berømt stuntman og rejse pen...
Filmen fortæller historien om en ung mand, som er træt af livet på landet og derfor køber en enkeltbillet til København - uden at have sikret sig job eller bolig. Han får arbejde og bor i nogen ...
For otte år siden blev Margot Beck offer for en seriemorder, mens hendes mand Alexandre med nød og næppe reddede livet, da han bagbundet var tæt ved at drukne i en sø. Alexandre har forsøgt at k...
Brandon Sullivan er ung, tiltrækkende og succesfuld og lever et tilsyneladende ubekymret liv i sin lejlighed på Manhattan. Men Brandons liv viser sig at have en dyster slagside. Han er nemlig så dy...
Det store cirkus Cranz, der navnlig er kendt for sin fortræffelige dyrebestand, er ved at blive indskibet til Sydamerika. Vore to gamle venner, Fyrtaarnet og Bivognen, har været dyrepassere hos dire...
Om tre rævepelse fra det bedre borgerskab i Århus, der udtænker et økonomisk svindelnummer for at redde den ene fra konkurs. Tre unge mænd med mere beskeden baggrund kommer tilfældigt under vejr...
Fru Adda Ernst er en midaldrende dame af borgerskabet. Hun har en hyggelig mand, et dejligt hjem og to unge friske børn, Birgit og Hans, der som de fleste af deres jævnaldrende er stærkt swing-inte...