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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
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.
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...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
(Reel 1) Albert Cathedral, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H D B Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle cross...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
A history of the Eastwood area in Glasgow, and footage of new community building developments in the early 1970s.
Perugia and its Italian University for foreign students.
An impressionistic account of the attractions that Aberdeen and Deeside offer the summer visitor.
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...
Amateur home movie footage of family events, including home visits, trips to the seaside and riding stables.
Amateur footage of the main sights and buildings in the centre of Ayr, and shots of Alloway.
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961. The film includes shots of Babcock and Wilcox boilers being installed in the Kodak factory, Essex. [See al...
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 ...
A holiday film of Italy, including views of Genoa, Alassio, Naples and Filignano.
Reportage over de bevrijding van Brussel. We zien de Duitsers per trein uit België vertrekken. (Gefilmd op een afstand, vermoedelijk vanuit een verdekte opstelling.) Dan zien we hoe de Duitsers Bruss...
Funeral of cardinal Mercier.
Biography of politician Lodewijk De Raet (1870 - 1914).
Documentary about a school in Brusels, founded in 1907 by Dr. Decroly.
Eerst vertelt men iets over de voorbereiding die de Kajotsters nemen om in september 1931 naar Rome op bedevaart te gaan nadat pius XI de mannelijke KAJ ontvangen had in 1929. Onabelt (?) stond in voo...
Interviews with prisoners liberated from Breendonk camp.
Short fictional film about travelling by train.
Newsreels from September 1949
Newsreels from September 1949