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....
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
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.
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...
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Skibet "Susan Constant" er ved at gøre klar til at sejle ud af London havn mod den nye verden. Året er 1607. Der er mange mænd ombord, alle med deres egne ambitioner, håb og drømme. For dem er de...
Calle og Palle er uadskillelige venner og følger hinanden i tykt og tyndt. Det er to hjertensgode fyre, som altid er parate til at række en hjælpende hånd, hvor de kommer frem, og i Cirkus Bollini...
Med 'Zatoichi - den blinde samurai' kastede Kitano sig over en kendt og elsket figur fra den japanske kulturskat; en figur, der har været portrætteret dusinvis af gange før. Titelfiguren er en omre...
»Af fædrene jord" handler om rødder og forandring, om mennesker i Danmark, nu. Vi møder drømmeren, amatørarkæologen, der oprigtig tror, at fortiden og han har en slags pagt. Vi møder familien,...
Trent Carter er 13 år. Han bor med sin familie i det sydøstlige Australien. Trent begyndte at kaste med boomerang, da han var to år, og hans drøm er at blive verdensmester. Dokumentarfilmen følge...
Luc Jacquets billedskønne dokumentarfilm om kejserpingvinernes enestående livscyklus på Sydpolen har gået sin sejrsgang over hele verden. I imponerende optagelser skildrer filmen, hvordan de hård...
Jean-Claude Delsart er en træt foged i halvtresserne, der af hengivenhed overfor sin utaknemmelige far har overtaget det forhadte familiefirma. På kontoret svinder Jean-Claudes livsgnist langsomt bo...
Marion og Justin er, hvad man kan kalde et multinationalt par, hun er fransk og han er amerikaner. De bor normalt i USA, men er taget på ferie i Europa. Efter et ikke så vellykket ophold i Venedig, ...