One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961, it features the Babcock and Wilcox tower crane involved in building the new sports stadium, Crystal Palace, ...
One of a series of twenty films made for Babcock and Wilcox (Steam) Ltd. between 1954 and 1961, it looks at the Scottish Gas Board Works at Westfield and ferries using Babcock and Wilcox steam engines...
One of a series of 20 films made for Babcock and Wilcox between 1954 and 1961, it illustrates the firm's involvement with atomic power and their construction of a reactor pressure vessel at Hinkley Po...
Steel making processes at Glengarnock Iron and Steel works.
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.
The sculptor Benno Schotz at work in his studio in Glasgow, and demonstrating his technique. The film examines his working methods and the themes running through his work. Much of his work is as a m...
A football match between Elgin City and an unidentified team, and the Inspection and Presentation of Colours of the Boys' Brigade (Inverness Battalion).
264 - Mont haut - French cabin (Marne) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
388 - Verdun - Ravin de la Caillette
0115 - Butte de Souain - Boyau de Jura (Marne)
31112 - Mailly - Russian troups (Mailly-Maillet, Somme, Picardie)
31105 - Verdun - Excavated bodies Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
23220 Chauny - Une rue (Département Aisne, Picardie)
23220 Chauny - A street (Aisne, Picardie)
23294 - Fort de la Pompelle - Reims
23294 - Fort de la Pompelle - Reims (aka Fort Herbillon) Marne
23088 - Artois - Cornqilles - German trenches Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
A few lines about a few minutes' peace of mind, made visible: I am half in a dream / half awake / when I'm left all alone/ all at peace / then I know / more than I thought / I knew / about the deeper ...
Drozdov talk of his understanding of 'freedom'. He compares present freedom as it used to be in the Ukraine; he describes how close friendships, earlier as now, create a space in which a feeling of fr...
About vagabonds. The film shows scenes from the everyday lives of vagabonds, about being on the road. Not necessarily every single day of the year. How they provide themselves with the necessities of ...
A successful young woman lives a seemingly perfect life. She has an ideal husband, an exciting job as a fashion photographer, but something is not quite right. In her dreams, she is confronted by an u...
Barney Richards is 37 years old. He lives with his mother in a provincial town. One night at the local discotheque he bumps into Gavin, an old aquaintance, who is doing well in the capital. Suddenly, ...
Views of the life in Marseille through its inhabitants (little girls, fishermen, bathers, families...) in the 1950's.
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...
This informative film is a prime example of the optimism of the 50s. It deals with the technical progress which improved the quality of life.