A story about a girl who wants to be beautiful. She gets a dress from her mom, but it's not the one she wanted. She tries to tell her mother, but she doesn't listen...
Tredje del af en citatsamling af dokumentarfilmklassikere ¿ 15 i alt ¿ fra tyverne til halvfjerdserne. Hver titel introduceres og karakteriseres undervejs: »The Quiet One" (»Et barns ensomhed"), 1...
Lady Sarah Ashley rejser til en fjern udørk i Australien, hvor hun møder den upolerede kvægdriver, The Drover og den forældreløse dreng, Nullah. For at redde den jord hun har arvet, skal hun driv...
Filmen fortæller den sammensmeltede historie om den 15-årige børnesoldat Johnny ¿Mad Dog¿ og den 13-årige pige Laokole, der er på flugt med sin forkrøblede far, samtidig med at hun forgæves f...
Fabulerende fantasi og musikalitet lyser ud af disse eksperimenterende animationsfilm. Båndet rummer »Ballet Ballade" (12 min): Et par danser sig gennem historien. »The Saints" (4 min): En jazzet m...
I forbindelse med udgivelsen af det kritikerroste album 'Into The Great Wide Yonder' drog den danske electro-ekvilibrist Trentemøller og hans band på turné. Turnéen startede i København i slutnin...
En mockumentary om Nicolai, en ambitiøs (og lettere virkelighedsfjern) elev fra KBH Film og Fotoskole i gang med sin afgangsfilm. Han har valgt at filme hele processen undervejs, som en form for behi...
We follow the 33 years old Patrick Small's train journey to Paris where he is going to meet his mother.
Jeannie and Mattie are accepted for a seaside holiday camp. One of a series of fund-raising films produced in aid of the Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund.
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.
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....
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.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
One of a series of ten animation films made by children in small village primary schools in Scotland, also involving the local community. The series was broadcast on Scottish Television and Grampian ...
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 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...
Teenagers voice their opinions on stereotypes and the issue of equality.
Film sponsored by Esso following the Scottish Rally of 1976. The rally begins in Ayrshire and takes in the Highlands. Interviews with various drivers at the roadside and after each stage is completed...
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Family home movies including footage of daily life around Glasgow city centre, the Barras market, the West End and the new Clyde Tunnel.
Television documentary from the mid 1960s about the redevelopment of Dundee: new houses, destruction of slums, the building of the Tay Road Bridge, growth of shops and industry.
TV documentary about Chinese families living and working in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the problems they face in terms of housing, education, work and community relations, and the provisions in place to a...
Kort melodrama: De Chinees Sang Lee ontfermt zich over een blank kind (Jack). Twintig jaar later verdedigt Jack, als prominent advocaat, zijn ten onrechte beschuldigde pleegvader in de rechtbank.