Deze film wil een zo breed mogelijk panorama bieden van een stad die vooral gekend is om zijn hoofdstedelijke functie (het paleis der natieën, de aflossing van de wacht in het koninklijk paleis). Bru...
Ongemonteerde filmbeelden - eerste probeersels van de jonge Gaston Schoukens. 0. Collectie familiebeelden zonder eenheid van tijd (eerste item is gefilmd in lente of zomer) terwijl er verderop winterb...
Report on the visit of several Congolese politicians to Brussels.
Verslag over de troonsbestijging van Leopold III op 23-02-1934, met inbegrijp van zijn "Blijde Intrede te Brussel" die er diezelfde dag aan voorafging. (Cfr. "Kroniek van België", p. 834.) Dit bevat ...
Documentary on the necessity of safeguarding industrial archeological sites in Belgium.
Reportage over de ontvangst van de Luxemburgse groothertogin op het koninklijk paleis en het stadhuis van Brussel. De reportage begint met een opname gefilmd vanop het balkon van het Pathé-Palace rec...
Promotional film for the Xaveriuskring Koninklijke Harmonie at Carloo-sint-Job.
Documentaire over de haven en de toeristische troeven van Antwerpen.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
An exploration of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross on the Firth of Clyde.
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...
Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development. [The film was made to tie in with an exhibition of the same title, held at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow....
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
"The Old Man and the Bird" (2014/15)
A history of the Eastwood area in Glasgow, and footage of new community building developments in the early 1970s.
Compilation of scenes from Glasgow in the sixties including footage of the Gorbals, Paddy's Market, the Broomielaw the Alhambra Theatre and Glasgow Green.
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...
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
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 Forth and Clyde Canal's operations on its last year of use.
Hostels at Loch Ard, Inverbeg and Rowardennan, with footage of hostellers climbing Ben Lomond and the Cobbler, canoeing on Loch Lomond and enjoying a dance.