Film recording the opening ceremony of the Colinton bypass.
This is possibly the Glasgow Police Tattoo. However this has not been verified. The images concern various displays in the Kelvin Hall.
General views of the production line in electric cable making factory.
The giant 'Titan' cantilever crane in Kvaerner Govan shipyard, 1048 Govan Road, in operation, just prior to its demolition.
A short film showing the antics of children one afternoon while their mother was picking fruit in the garden.
This film was intended to aid primary school teachers who were tackling the Dance Section of S.E.D.'s Syllabus on Physical Education, part of which contains lessons in Expressive Movement.
Documents the official opening of the Memorial Gates, Glasgow University, 1952.
Trims showing of the Scottish Tool Manufacturing Co. Many shots of the factory floor with the machines being operated.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
On board of a German battleship.
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...
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
The film shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...