Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
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.
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
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.
Swaziland i det sydlige Afrika er det sidste enevældige monarki på kontinentet. Landets overhoved er den 32-årige konge Mswati III, hvis far fik flere hundrede børn med sine mange koner. Sivdansen...
Kari Iveland er en kendt norsk sangerinde, men bag den solide karriere ligger et smertefuldt privatliv. Instruktøren følger som en flue-på-væggen Kari Ivelands arbejde med sin første soloplade »...
»Når krigen slutter" handler om nogle af følgerne af den sydafrikanske kamp mod Apartheid. BMW (Bonteheuwel Military Wing) er en selvforsvarsenhed dannet af teenagere i midten af firserne. Med to t...
En fortælling om to brødre, Ranvir og Rajeev Singh, som lever livet på kanten. Deres business er væddeløbsheste, og tempoet er i overhalingsbanen. <br>"Race" foregår i Syd Afrika og handle...
Alejandro bor i Zonen, en fashionabel bydel omringet af en høj mur. Her bor de rige og privilegerede beskyttet af private sikkerhedsfolk. Da et stort reklameskilt vælter ind over muren, kravler tre ...
Hvad sker der når man sætter to fyre der hader hinanden sammen? En sej telefonsælger Jimmy Cliff, en desi wannabe gangster Bachchan Pande og tilføjer for god ordens skyld en smuk pige Pooja, som i...
Den ene er lige blevet fyret fra sit job. Den anden lige fyret af sin kæreste. Begge tager de til "Syndens By", Las Vegas, for at få en sjov aften i byen. De to fremmede vågner op i samme seng og o...
<p>Da mr. Beanes tabte hovedet:En sadistisk engelsklærer mister hovedet, da to af hans elever, der er fanatiske skrækfilmfans, prøver at slippe af med ham ved hjælp af sort magi. <p>Si...