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 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 Kvarteret Mozart i Camerouns næststørste by, får en lille pige en heks til at lave sig om til en mand. Den nyskabte unge mand, med navnet Min Fyr, taber et spil, og skal som straf nedlægge den f...
Alt, hvad jeg så, så jeg én gang og aldrig mere. Det er i virkeligheden så enkelt. Man forsvinder hele tiden, og man aner ikke, hvor det hele er på vej hen. En mand genkalder sig en rejse. En rej...
En præstation af værker- to kunstarter udfordrer og udvikler sig i hinandens spejl: Videokunsten og den moderne dans, spændende fra den moderne ballet til avantgardistisk performancedans. Koreograf...
Mere end 4.000 mennesker i Danmark har fået anerkendt at have hjerneskader som følge af arbejdet med organiske opløsningsmidler og sprøjtegifte. Og flere hundrede tusinde har arbejdet med de farli...
Bubbys kendskab til verden stopper ved væggene i den to-værelses slumlejlighed, han har opholdt sig i gennem 35 år siden sin fødsel. Han kender kun eksistensen af sig selv og sin mor. Han leger me...
Kronborg rummer inde i sine mure store dele af et andet og ældre slot, Krogen, som er bygget af Erik af Pommern omkring 1420. På grundlag af fund og afdækninger ved Kronborgs restaurering i årene ...
Hovedfigurerne i "Ung leg" er den 17-årige Helle og den 18-årige Birte. De hører begge til den "forgyldte" ungdom, den velhavende kreds i Københavns omegn eller en af vore større provinsbyer, og ...
Som alle andre eventyr begynder dette med: Der var engang. Der var engang to venner, den ene var skuespiller i København, den anden i Oslo. Ham i København hed Oswald, og det hændte en dag, at han ...